Parkinson's Disease Workshop
A six-week summer workshop from MIT examining Parkinson's disease from multiple angles: clinical characteristics, structural neuroimaging, neuropathology, genetics, and cognitive function including mental status, cognitive control processes, working memory, and long-term declarative memory. The course is named for James Parkinson, the English neurologist who first described the condition in 1817, though the workshop itself does not cover motor control, nondeclarative memory, or treatment approaches. Materials come from MIT OpenCourseWare and reflect a graduate-level, discussion-based workshop format rather than a lecture course, drawing on neuroscience and clinical research to build a picture of how the disease affects brain structure and cognition. Suited to those with some background in neuroscience or cognitive science looking for a focused, research-oriented treatment of PD's non-motor dimensions.