Posted by Ilene on March 9, 2003, at 23:47:01
In reply to Re: Parkinsons, posted by noa on March 5, 2003, at 16:52:43
> The second site you linked is very interesting! I like the way the info is organized, too.
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> But when I read the first link, I was somewhat skeptical of a Parkinsons personality, because there, it is described as:
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> "...appear to be highly intelligent, successful, responsible, conscientious, hard-working, less likely to smoke or drink, law abiding individuals."
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> Obviously, this is too broad to be useful. And,possibly spurious. One could easily imagine several ways that one could get the impression that patients diagnosed with Parkinsons have these traits vs. their opposites:
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> The second link talks more about compulsive tendencies. I will have to go back and look at the research they based this on, but that sounds more promising to me than the above characteristics.
>I wonder how useful it is to evaluate personality *after* someone has been diagnosed, and I wonder if the disease affects personality long before other symptoms become apparent. Or is it supposed to be the other way around? Uptight folks get Parkinson's? Assuming it affects personality at all. There are a zillion hard-working, conscientious, non-smokers who *don't* get Parkinson's.
> I sometimes think about Parkinsons. My grandmother essentially died of it. It was not diagnosed that readily.
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> I don't even have a clue if P. is hereditary, but of course, I think about it from time to time.Supposed to be *not* hereditary. My dad has it.
--I.
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