Our friends at TEVA Neuroscience are coordinating a special lecture on Monday, January 25th. Dr. Erwin Montgomery with the Division of Movement Disorders at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, will be in town for one day only and will speak on "Managing Motor & Non-Motor Symptoms of PD."

Monday: January 25th at Meadowview Presbyterian Church
11:00am registration
11:30am presentation & lunch
12:15pm question & answer session

Please RSVP to David Green at 502-419-4350 as seating is limited. This event is being directly coordinated by TEVA; if you are on our monthly mailing list, you should receive an invitation by post.

Before joining UAB, Dr. Montgomery was the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Roger Duvoisin Fellowship from the American Parkinson Disease Association and the Roland Mackay Award from the American Academy of Neurology. Additionally, he was elected to the American Neurological Association, a prestigious honor reserved for the neurologists who are most distinguished in the field.

Please note: PSCKY's regular "Lunch & Learn" at Meadowview Presbyterian on Wednesday, January 27th at noon will still be held. The topic is "Unraveling the Mysteries of Medicare."

We have a new DVD in our lending library this week: "Conscious Living/Conscious Dying". This 90-minute program with Stephen Levine explores living with illness, the process of dying, and the use of imagery in healing. As with all of our lending library materials, we are happy to send this directly to your home, or you can come by and take a look at our Open House this Friday, January 15th between 10a-2p.

"Treat your illness as though it were your only child, with that same mercy and loving-kindness. If it were your child's body, you'd caress it, you'd hold it, you'd do all you could to make it well. But somehow when it's in our own body we wall it off, we send hatred and anger into it. We treat ourselves with so little kindness, so little softness." Stephen Levine

WHO: Anyone with Parkinson's disease interested in learning some new new moves. Partners welcome too (but not required!)!
WHAT: A weekly dance class that will explore a variety of dance styles with the aim of improving balance & movement.
WHEN: Thursdays from 11:30a-12:30p
Mandatory Orientation: Thursday, February 4th, 11:30a-12:30p
Classes: February 11-May 20th from 11:30a-12:30p
WHERE: Dance Louisville (8023 Catherine Ln #103; Louisville KY 40242). Our thanks to owner Brian Barakauskas for allowing us to use the beautiful studio!
COST: Free! (Donations to PSCKY in support of our programs are always welcome.)
TO REGISTER: Call Katherine at 502-426-0888 or 502-314-8307, or email Katherine (support@pscky.org).

PSCKY is now on Facebook! Please "become a fan." Thanks to everyone who's joined up so far! We now have over 100 "fans"...and we welcome your pictures, posts and conversations on our Facebook site.

PSCKY has also just been listed as a regional partner of PDTrials (we're toward the bottom of this page). Participating in clinical trials is a terrific way to both help yourself and advance research for treatments and cures. We encourage you to visit PDTrials often. You may also want to check our smaller listing of trials that we maintain on our website!

Research Participants Needed! The Division of Movement Disorders is conducting a study to determine if Coenzyme Q10 can slow the progression of early stage Parkinson's disease. There should be the presence of the three cardinal features of PD (rigidity, tremors, slowness of movement) but should not have developed sufficient disability to require treatment. If you are over 30 years of age and interested in this study, please call Annette Robinson 502-540-3585 for more information.

Jefferson County Cooperative Extension Service is offering a FREE program on "Soups and Stews to Stretch Your Budget" at:

• Shively Public Library (3920 Dixie Hwy) on Tuesday, January 12th at 7pm
• Southwest Public Library (10375 DIxie Hwy) on Tuesday, January 19th at 11am
  

For more information, call Valerie Holland at 502-569-2344 x119 or Debra Oberhausen at 502-574-1793.

The Presbyterian Church USA's office of Cultural Proficiency invites everyone to this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, "On Being a Good Neighbor." The celebration will begin at the Presbyterian Center at 100 Witherspoon St on Friday, January 15th at 1pm and will be followed by a group walk to two locations of significance to reflect on Louisville's involvement with the Underground Railroad, immigrant activism and faith in community.

Stick to Your Resolutions: Setting Soulful Goals will be presented Thursday, January 21st from 6-8pm in the Marshall Women's Health & Education Center at the Norton Medical Plaza III - Suburban (4121 Dutchman's Ln, Ste 108). Call 502-629-1234 to register for this free program!

Street Count Volunteers Needed: Every year the Coalition for the Homeless conducts a "street count" to compile a census of people who are living on the street. On Thursday, January 28, 2010, 6p.m.-8p.m., they will be doing the Street Count again. We will need lots of volunteers, even if it is just for an hour. They need people to help on the streets, to be inside to distribute clothing and sleeping bags, people to "direct traffic" inside the shelter, etc. Please reply to Susanne Binford, Seven Counties Project Coordinator, Mental Health Outreach at sbinford@sevencounties.org to sign up or for further information.

In our January printed "Monthly Support News", the listing for the Bardstown, KY group was incorrectly posted as meeting on the 13th. That group will meet on Wednesday, 20 January at 1pm. Our proof-reader must have had a bit too much eggnog!