Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to everybody who is here, and a shout-out to Dr. Bouchard—who will be here in the second round—for the work that you've all been doing around governance.
I think the honourable member across the way was pointing out the importance of peer review in research.
Last week we had a similar list, and one of the things was music therapy in bettering mental health and education. This morning I was with Parkinson Canada, and with researchers from across Canada and clinicians.
There is some great work in Alberta, Dr. McCauley.
There were some surprising recommendations from the panels this morning, where we're looking at Parkinson's treatment in Canada and really focusing on the physical aspects of Parkinson's. One of the areas that came up was music therapy for patients. One of the patients who was there said one of the best therapies he had was singing Kenny Rogers tunes. He got to choose the tunes and then that helped him with his voice, which was diminishing because of the symptoms of Parkinson's.
Another person said that we need to deal with Parkinson's in terms of a family of support—that it's not just the patient, but it's the care provider. They said that social services needs to be involved in research and that the therapists are supported by families who provide different social aspects.
We heard about the importance of interdisciplinary research, not just from the neurologists, but from the people who improve the quality of life for people who are dealing with Parkinson's—as a specific case.
Dr. McCauley, could you talk about the interdisciplinary approach and how some research, which may seem disconnected, could be brought together with an interdisciplinary approach?