Each year, we celebrate in the month of April the birthday of James Parkinson, who first described the disease and its characteristics in 1817. Patient and research groups around the world organise the World Parkinson’s Day around the 11th of April to draw attention to the disease and inform on symptoms and treatment options.
For this occasion, the medical historical exhibition that explains the milestones of Parkinson's disease research since the first description of the disease 200 years ago, will be hosted in the foyer of the Luxembourg City train station from 11 - 20 April 2017.
The exhibition guides visitors from the description of clinical symptoms, via the first discoveries of its origin and development of currently used therapies up to innovative research approaches of the 21st century. The exhibition is available in English, German and French and free of charge.
On the opening day of the exhibition, researchers from the National Centre for Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease will have a booth at the train station from 7:00 to 19:00. Interested visitors can get multilingual information about the study and try out colour vision tests, dexterity tests and a smell test that are part of the clinical characterisation of Parkinson’s patients and healthy control subjects within the study.