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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Parkinson's Disease Workshop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online biology course highlighting Parkinson's disease. Course topics include clinical characteristics, structural neuroimaging, neuropathology, genetics, and cognitive function. Course features include reading suggestions...
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Website
Other

Alzheimer Society Canada: Treatment, Drug Treatments

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows you to research drugs such as Aricept and Exelon that are available in Canada to treat people with Alzheimer's disease. This site also explains that drugs to stop the disease are not yet available.
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Article
Other

Pro health.com: Scientists Devise Scale for Measuring Alzheimer's

For Students 9th - 10th
This article reveals that researchers have devised a way to measure the severity of Alzheimer's disease using an index.
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Handout
Harvard University

Harvard Medical: The Whole Brain Atlas: Neuroimaging

For Students 9th - 10th
Hundreds of images of brain structures are here, including normal and diseased brain parts.