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<We recomend that anyone who is serious about learning a difficult subject go to http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp and download and install "1-Click Answers" - it is the handiest piece of software on the planet and it is free. > 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 and Mind This BBC site covers body and mind as well as several additional systems. The Brain from Top to Bottom Based at McGill University, this Canadian site is a wonder. With plenty of colored illustrations, it discusses a dozen or more specific areas of the brain at three different levels (beginner, medium, advanced). Go through the three one by one and in a week you will be an expert. Brain Atlas An extremely well-linked site from the Lundbeck Institute, this one makes an excellent pair with the above. NIH Parkinson's Disease Planning Workshop An NIH attempt to do what we are attempting to do - get cross-talk between the disciplines. Good general guide. Medline Plus Pretty much the "party line" but good quality and a lot of it. Good place to begin if you keep your mind open once you are done. Microbiology A great presentation on the stuff you forgot in introductory Micro by Dr. Gary Kaiser. Cell Biology University of Texas Medical School tutorial for beginning to intermediate. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience This Columbia University-based medium to advanced site offers approximately 40 lectures representing their annual symposium's presenters. Each talk is available in printed or recorded form. Neuroscience A mid-level neuroscience tutorial from the Washington University School of Medicine. NIH Videos NIH Portal - video is just part of it. E-Medicine Advanced. Definitely advanced. | A Report from the Field If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then no knowledge is certain death. So much data has accum- ulated over the last few years that no scientist or physician, and certainly no patient, has been able to keep up even within his or her own field. The patient cannot put the entire burden on the physician once this fact is realized and must instead accept the responsibility for his or her own care. The responsibility is even greater if the patient and physician and scientist are going to work together and it is incumbent upon any patient to undertake the task before posting. With the resources listed here, it is almost easy. Almost. As for the professionals: don't assume you know the subject for, unless you are the rare exception, you don't. It is through no failing of your own. It is simply that the sheer volume of data has made it impossible even within your own field. And as Dr. Langley pointed out on our Home page, PD does not fall entirely into any one field. If the mysteries of PD are to be solved, then we must all approach it humbly bearing the bit of knowledge that we each posess. It is by combining those individual offeringsthat we may find the whole. |