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> > Last night I attended an informative and very interesting talk by Dr > Lynda Sigmund, my neuro, and the consulting neurologist to our suppport group.. > This has become an annual event = her talk on what's happening in the world > of PDD medications. But, more to the point, she mentioned'vascular parkinson's". > She used the term in a discussion on the difference between Parkinson's Disease, and Parkinsonism, the latter being PD symptoms caused by something other than PD. She gave 'vascular parkinsonism' as an example - saying that it was a series of strokes (vascular incidents) in the regions of the brain where dopamine is produced or utilised (eg substantia nigra or basal ganglion) so that these regions are impaired, and unable to do their normal dopamine thing, and thus cause symptoms of PD. I may be a bit fuzzy on the exact details but essentially that is what she said. I dont know exactly how that ties in with what has been being said on the list, as I have not been folooing very closely, but I thought I'd pass on this tidbit of information. Hilary Blue