Web Resources For Neurologists


Academy Sites

Name

URL (address)
Description




American Academy of Neurology

http://www.aan.com/
Academic and adminstrative publications, AAN News, practice parameters, directory information, neurology rating scales, and clinical trials.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org/
"Facts for Families" gives parent information on a variety of topics. Useful for office handouts.
American Academy Of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/
A variety of patient and professional information.
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
http://www.aans.org/
A well designed website that includes society information, journals, and chat rooms.
American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psych.org/
CME program via internet, as well as publications.
Child Neurology Society
http://www.umn.edu/cns/index.htm
Academy and Employment Information.
Child-Neuro
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/child-neuro/
Linkage to other relevant sites and mailing lists, clinical trials, specialized labs, etc.
International Child Neurolgy Association
http://www2.mf.uni-lj.si/~icna/index.html
Academy and meeting information

Book Sites


Merck Manual

http://www.merck.com/!!to6wF0x79to6xw1Uew/pubs/mmanual/
Searchable editions of the Merck Manuals.
OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
Superb, continuously updated online version of Dr. Victor A. McKusick's book. Disorders searchable by symptoms and signs; with references.
PedBase
http://www.icondata.com/health/pedbase/index.htm
A book by Dr Alan Gandy on various pediatric disorders.
Physicians Desk Reference
http://www.medecinteractive.com/
Use is free for physicians.

Journal Sites


Archives of Neurology

http://www.ama-assn.org/journals/standing/neur/neurhome.htm
Searchable abstracts and selected full text articles.
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
http://www.ama-assn.org/journals/standing/ajdc/ajdchome.htm
Searchable abstracts and past issues.
BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/bmj
Full text articles.
Highwire Press
http://www.highwire.org/
A collection of a variety of Biomedical Journals available on the Internet.
JAMA
http://www.ama-assn.org/journals/standing/jama/jamahome.htm
Selected articles and searchable database of abstracts.
MMWR
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr.html

Nature
http://www.nature.com/

Neurobiology of Disease

http://www.apnet.com/www/journal/nb.htm

On-line version of a journal at the interface between basic and clinical neuroscience.
Neurosurgery
http://www.wwilkins.com/neurosurgery/
Abstracts and selected full text articles.
Pediatrics
http://www.pediatrics.org/
Includes access to elctronic articles.
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Abstracts and brief news items are available.


Medline Browsers


GratefulMed

http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Free access to a variety of databases including Medline, AIDSLine and HealthSTAR
PubMed
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/medline.html
An extremely useful and updated search engine for the Medline and Pre-Medline databases

Neurology/Neuroscience Related Sites


Ketogenic Diet Web Site

http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/ketodiet/
Information about the Ketogenic Diet
Library of The Family Village
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/library.htm
This is the ultimate catalog of internet resources concerning neurological diseases and developmental disabilities.
MGH Neurology Web-Forum
http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/forum/
Interactive, online discussion about various neurology-related topics.
Neonatology on the Web
http://www.csmc.edu/neonatology/
Linkages and teaching files
Neurosurgery Internet Resources
http://sunsite.unc.edu/Neuro/index.html

NIH
http://www.nih.gov/
National Institutes of Health Homepage
NINDS
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Homepage
Pedinfo server: a pediatric informatics webpage
http://www.lhl.uab.edu:80/pedinfo/

Excellent beginning point for all links related to pediatrics, including subspecialty, departmental, disease-specific, and health-education information

Points of Pediatric Interest
http://www.med.jhu.edu/peds/neonatology/poi.html
Another excellent place to start searches in pediatrics; from Marshall University
Society for Neuroscience
http://www.sfn.org/




Disease related sites




Ataxia Telangiectasia
http://www.med.jhu.edu/ataxia

Autism
http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/autism/
Multiple links to other sites on autism.
Autism Society of America
http://www.autism-society.org/

Batten Disease Support and Research Association
http://www.infolane.com/bdsra/bdsrahp.html

OncoLink: Pediatric Brain Tumors
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/disease/ped_brain/index.html

Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/

SCOPE - For People with Cerebral Palsy
http://www.futurenet.co.uk/charity/scope/index.html

Cerebral Palsy; University of Virginia Children's Medical Center
http://galen.med.virginia.edu/~smb4v/tutorials/cp/cp.htm
Multimedia Tutorial for Children and Parents
Communication Disorders
http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/welcome.html
Resources for speech, language pathology, audiology, and speech science.
Dystonia Dialogue
http://www.ziplink.net/users/dystonia/

Epilepsy Foundation Of America
http://www.efa.org/indexf.htm

Epilepsy Information Page at Washington University
http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/epilepsy/
A directory of Internet resources that covers diagnosis, laboratory testing, treatment, and provides a searchable epilepsy database.
Mitochondrial disorders: MITOMAP
http://infinity.gen.emory.edu/mitomap.html
A database of the "Report of the committee on human mitochondrial DNA", listing known mitochondrial mutations and associated diseases
Muscular Dystrophy Association
http://www.mdausa.org/

Washington University Neuromuscular Disease Center
http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/
Guide to the differential diagnosis of motoneuron, nerve, neuromuscular junction, and muscle disease.
Neurofibromatosis
http://www.nf.org/

Pediatric Neurosurgery
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu:80/dept/nsg/PNS/
Includes patient information on hydrocephalus, spina bifida, Chiari malformation, tethered spinal cord, syringohydromyelia, craniofacial anomalies, tumors and trauma.
International Rett Syndrome Association
http://www2.paltech.com/irsa/irsa.htm

Sleep
http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/

Tourette Syndrome
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6903/tourette.html

Tuberous Sclerosis Association
http://www.ntsa.org/
From the National Tuberous Sclerosis Association.

Other sites of interest




Big dummies guide to the Internet

http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Bigdummy/bdg_3.html
Guide to the use of the internet.