Director of the Institute of Translational Biomedicine of the St. Petersburg University, Scientific Director of the Clinic of High Medical Technologies of the St. Petersburg University, Professor Raul Gainetdinov, Head of the Department of Neurology of the National Medical Research Center named after I.I. V.M. Bekhtereva, Vladimir Mikhailov, Researcher of the I.P. Pavlov Department of Physiology of the Institute of Experimental Medicine Zamira Muruzheva and Professor of the Department of Computer Engineering of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University ‘LETI’ Yulia Shichkina told to the TASS journalists about modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of this neurodegenerative disease, about scientific advances in the search for the causes of Parkinson’s disease, as well as about the risks of developing the disease in those who have had a new coronavirus infection.