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>From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: PMID: 9371905: Olfactory dysfunction in familial PD 27/0 USA 1997 >To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Olfactory dysfunction in familial parkinsonism >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >The appearance of olfactory dysfunction soon after disease onset raises the >possibility that it is part of the neurodegenerative disease process. > > >Neurology 1997 Nov;49(5):1262-7 >Markopoulou K, Larsen KW, Wszolek EK, Denson MA >Lang AE, Pfeiffer RF, Wszolek ZK >Section of Neurology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA. >PMID: 9371905 UI: 98039174 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >janet [log in to unmask] > As PWP with loss of sense of smell, I worry that this loss may be related to other non-movement deficits in the future. By non-movement deficities I mean depression, dementia, etc. My non-technical view of the brain leaves me with the feeling that loss of sent of smell must relate to loss of brain cells beyond the dopamine producers. Anyone else have info/thoughts? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com