Mayo Clinic staff have been at the forefront of research on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders for decades. For more information, see:
Research at Mayo Clinic in Florida
Mayo Clinic is recognized as a Morris K. Udall National Institutes of Health Parkinson's Disease Center of Excellence and physicians in Florida are studying families with multiple members affected by Parkinsonism or other movement disorders. The research includes clinical investigations (examination of patients for research purposes), genealogical studies, molecular genetic analysis and DNA banking. These studies are sponsored by grants from the Morris K. Udall National Institutes of Health Parkinson's Disease Center of Excellence. For more information, see: Udall Center of Excellence in Parkinson's Disease Research.
See a list of publications by Mayo Clinic doctors on Parkinson's disease on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
Read more about a global eight-family study seeking treatment for Perry syndrome, a rare form of Parkinson's disease.