The Peripatetic Pursuit of Parkinson Disease
This is a masterpiece, pure and simple. This is a book that will change your perspective on PD forever. Jon Stamford, PhD...Although there is much crossover, the book is divided into eight chapters Parkinson Basics and Beyond, Parkinson Is More Than a Movement Disorder, Helping Ourselves, Quality of Life, The Difficult Bits, PD Activism, Advocacy in Action and Going International .If you're looking for a simple didactic, here's what you should do approach to Parkinson, then you should go elsewhere. If you want to be spoon fed, like a child, this book is not the answer. This is not a book for mental couch potatoes. This is a book for active enquiring minds who just happen to have PD.So if you are a thinker and like your brain cells regularly tickled, this book is for you. If you want answers, they are here. But more importantly, so are questions and ideas. And if you want to really understand your PD, what it means to you as a person and to those around you, you are already knocking on the door.This is a book which prompts original thought, challenges existing dogma, provokes responses, and empowers the reader. It is further even than that -- it's an aerobic workout for the brain!The book is also accessible. Individual sections are short and punchy. Personal testimonies abound, providing intimacy and a human scale to the neurobiology. Everything is here -- from reactions to diagnosis through to the ethics of sham surgery in clinical trials. And all points in between.You may not know it yet but this book is what you have been waiting for. Jon Stamford, PhD, co- founder of Parkinson s Movement,UK--Review: On the Move, Newsletter, UK, Autumn 2013.