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Ron writes: >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? > In some of my studies into PD years ago I encountered a college text (name long forgotten) that showed an olfactory center very close to the substantia nigra in the brain. I guess the free-radical damage in that area is not specific to the SN. I think we have more than one olfactory center, which explains why I can still smell.some things. Kathie Tollifson [log in to unmask] 47/9