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At 15:37 1999/08/02 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Brian! > >Bo Johnels, the neurology-professor at my hospital, believes that >involuntary movements (paraphrased by me, I've forgotten the wording) is >the result of dopamine receptors detecting a decrease of dopamine >levels, cranking up their sensitivity to dopamine, and then producing >way too powerful signals to the muscles when dopamine comes into the system. > >How about that as an explanation? It sounds believable to me... > >/John. how about a pallidotomy operation where the cells that have 'gone haywire' are zapped on the spot? along with the dyskinetic [?] movements seen it happen [on tv] jp janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>