At 11:42 18-7-99 +0200, Maryse Schild wrote: >Ida, >Thank you for the precisions. The "disturbance in central dopaminergic >mechanisms" sounds to me like one of these terms we call in french >"noyer le poisson"(drown the fish). >If there were no such disturbance, would there be PD? Martyse, IHMO the writers of the setence you object to did mean to say with it that it is not only a lack of doppamine that causes the symptoms, but that dopamine in the brain of a PWP has another effect as in a normal brain and that the two kinds of dopa induced dyskinesia; one correlated with the measured level of dopamine and the other not are not the outcome of the same mechanism. I agree that saying this without stating what exactly are these mechanisms , seem not very helpfull Ida -------------------------------------------------------------- Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards, Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask]