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Charles T. Meyer, M.D. wrote: > .... Most movement disorder specialists I think- try to avoid > Sinemet early in the disease because it can cause dyskinesia > (random jersey movements) after several years of use but it is > clearly the most effective drug. As a resident of New Jersey, I was intrigued by the phrase "random [J]ersey movements" (I forgive the lower case "j", which I presume is a typo). I asked a friend who holds an appointment at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey about this terminology. She hadn't heard of the phrase, but supposed it to be a pattern of movement at the organism level analogous to Brownian movements, which are the random movements of molecules. I then checked at Rutgers and Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, even at the Jersey City Library Information Desk, but with no results. How is it that supposedly knowledgable people in New Jersey have not heard of "Jersey movements"? And why is this phrase equated with dyskinesia? Do we Jerseyites move differently from other people, in a manner noticeable only to outsiders? Charlie, what did you mean? Phil Tompkins Hoboken NJ