Category Archives: Rants and Raves

And What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

<Subsonics are inaudible, extremely low frequency, yet very powerful sound waves. In nature they almost always are linked to danger and thus trigger the fight or flight response. They are also quite rare. However, in the world of the Industrial Revolution they became steadily more common. Today, millions of us live with them. Only a [...]

About PD

Tutorials and General Instruction – Arranged from Beginner to Advanced, more or less. The Human Brain From the Franklin Institute, this has to be one of the best on our subject and is particularly directed at the beginning student. It is also one of the best designed sites on the web. BBC The Human Body [...]

Dextromethorphan and Parkinson’s Disease

(Like everything else on this site and regardless of the language used, this is not to be taken as medical advice. Take the information to your own doctor for advice. Also,  be aware that DXM should not be taken with MAOIs, SSRIs, or similar drugs. Do your homework.) So, what happens to a drug that: [...]

PD and Alzheimer’s: A Critical Difference

Today’s Science Daily has an article entitled: Scientists Remove Amyloid Plaques From Brains Of Live Animals With Alzheimer’s Disease Das et al at the Mayo Clinic in Florida have found that in a mouse, the stimulation of microglia leads them to destroy the plaques formed by Alzheimer’s Disease. This is in contract to PD where [...]

Rhythm and Balance

A friend, Joop Oele, at Understanding Parkinson’s Disease, has raised some interesting points about signals within the nervous system and how they translate into movement. As such things will, it has set my thinking in the direction of a number of things grouped loosely under the umbrella of this blog’s title, A Matter of Balance. [...]

White Rats: A Perspective

“White Rats” is the name that I choose for discussion of alternative treatments for Parkinson’s Disease. It is an explicit and ever-present reminder that those of us who decide to experiment with these substances are taking part in a giant, unregulated clinical trial. It is a reminder that there are risks and even dangers. It [...]