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(Italicized comments are from my reviews in BRITANNICA: Britannica Internet
Guide;
reprinted with permission from Britannica Internet Guide,
copyright 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.)
Neuropsychology, Neurology, and
Medicine
 Professional
Neuropsychology Societies:
- International Neuropsychological Society
(INS).
- The INS International
Liaison Committee.
- National Academy of
Neuropsychology (NAN): Includes the Houston
Conference report.
- APA Division 40 -
Clinical Neuropsychology: Includes its Newsletter (available in
.pdf file format) and an Archives section.
- British
Neuropsychological Society.
- Gesellschaft für
Neuropsychologie (GNP)/Society for Neuropsychology.
- Nederlandse
Vereniging voor Neuropsychologie.
- Norsk
Nevropsykologisk Forening (NNF)/Norwegian Neuropsychological
Association.
- Regional societies in
Europe, Latin America, the Pacific Rim, and Africa. Other
Neuropsychology Groups:
- Canadian
Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science/Societe Canadienne
des Sciences du Cerveau, du Comportement et de la Cognition
- Pacific
Northwest Neuropsychological Society.
- Philadelphia Neuropsychology Society.
- Midwest Neuropsychology Group (MNG).
- Houston
Neuropsychological Society.
- Massachusetts Neuropsychological
Society
- Hispanic Neuropsychological Society.
- Neurolist:
Virtual communities for neuropsychologists, neurologists, and others.
- Israel
Neuropsychology Forum.
- New York
Neuropsychology Group.
Meetings:
- 33rd Annual International
Neuropsychological Society Meeting (February 2005)
Credentialing, Training, and Other Professional Issues:
- American
Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN).
- Training Programs in
Clinical Neuropsychology.
- Association
of Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology (APPCN).
- Association for
Internship Training in Clinical Neuropsychology (AITCN).
- The Vivian Smith
Advanced Studies Institute of the
International Neuropsychological Society.
- The Association of
Neuropsychology Students in Training (ANST)
- Council of Specialties
in Professional Psychology.
- Association
of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), which
includes a set of listservs
that may be useful for students.
- National Association
of Psychometrists
- "Neuropsychological
Testing of Adults" (1996 guidelines for neurologists from the American
Academy of Neurology; .pdf file) Links to
material of neuropsychological relevance, Neuropsychology Central.
Copenhagen
Neuropsychology
Comprehensive Neurology Resources:
- American Academy
of Neurology, "...Professional society representing neurologists
the world over. Provides information about upcoming AAN conferences, a
listing of fellowship and research-funding opportunities, news releases,
and coverage of continuing medical education. Also features fact sheets
and brochures on neurological diseases and disorders for patients and
their families, a selected monthly topic (e.g., stroke) that is described
in detail, and lesson plans for educators of grades K-12 for teaching
about the brain and how it functions..." Provides text of practice
guidelines and offers a consumer newsletter.
- World Federation
of Neurology.
- NIH National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- Gateway to
Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, including "Neurology
WebForums" and chat rooms for the general public.
- Medscape offers a
comprehensive website with specialty pages, including ones for neurology
and for psychiatry (free registration required to access content pages).
- Neurology
Channel: The world of neurology for the general public.
- NeurologyLinx.com: Daily reports
and links.
- Dana.org: "...a
gateway to brain information. Visit the Brain Information and
Brain Web section to access general information about the brain and
current brain research, and to link to validated sites related to more
than 23 brain disorders. Brainy Kids Online offers
children, parents and teachers a site with activities for younger
children, puzzles, links to excellent educational resources, and lesson
plan suggestions." [from the Dana homepage]. The site also is the home for
the official Brain
Awareness Week web pages.
Food and Drug Administration:
Includes drug and medical device
approvals and related actions, Good Clinical Practices (GCP)
in Clinical Trials information, and MedWatch notices
concerning "timely safety information on the drugs and other medical
products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," among many
other features.
National Institutes of Health. Including
the "NIH Roadmap" plan.
HIPAA and Research: A
resource from the University of California - San Diego.
BioMedNet -- Information
directed toward biological and medical researchers.
(free registration required to access content pages).
The Commonwealth Fund.
Merck's
1999 (17th) edition of the Diagnosis and Therapy Manual
and its Manual of Geriatrics
(2nd edition, 1995).
The
University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital website family: University of Iowa Virtual
Hospital, Virtual
Children's Hospital, and Virtual Naval Hospital.
Institute for OneWorld
Health. From the homepage: " The mission of the Institute for OneWorld
Health is to develop new, essential and affordable medicines for neglected
diseases. Our initial target is parasitic diseases."
CVA:
- The The
Brain Attack Coalition, created by a number of professional societies,
offers information for practitioners.
- National Stroke Association.
- Washington University in St. Louis has a helpful StrokeCenter site that
"...features useful and practical information for families and
patients...".
Epilepsy:
- American
Epilepsy Society
- Stanford's Comprehensive
Epilepsy Center
- Epilepsy Foundation
- The National
EpiFellows Foundation is a website for use of those professionals
currently in training or seeking specialized training in epilepsy
services.
The American
Association of Neurological Surgeons's Neurosurgery://On-Call informational
website, which includes the nicely conceptualized Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery.
Official medical and scientific statements issued by the American
Heart Association, including many that address the contemporary medical
and surgical treatment of cerebrovascular disease.
OBGYN.net: "The universe of
women's health."
HospitalWeb --
links to hospitals around the world.
TBI
and Rehabilitation:
- Traumatic
Brain Injury Model Systems
- Traumatic Brain and
Spinal Cord Injuries Project
- Center
for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury
- RehabTrials.org
- Northeast Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Network.
- American Congress of Rehabilitation
Medicine.
Aging,
Alzheimer Disease, and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases:
- Alzheimer Research
Forum
- Alzheimer's
Drug News (from the Alzheimer Research Forum).
- Alzheimer's Drugs in Clinical
Trials (from the Alzheimer Research Forum).
- Washington University in St. Louis's The Alzheimer Page
- Alzheimer Society of
Canada/Société Alzheimer du Canada.
- Baycrest Memory Loss:
An online education for the general public about memory changes.
- Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative
Study -- An overview website to the National Institute on Aging's
multicenter research consortium, including the "Memory Impairment Study."
- Michael J. Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's research.
- University of Southern California's Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology
Center. "Academic facility offering numerous research, educational,
and patient-care programs dealing with normal aging and geriatric
disorders. Describes all facets of the center, including The Caregiver's
Resource newsletter, and lists its publications, nutrition programs, class
schedules, and faculty interests."
- The Nun Study from the
University of Kentucky. "Long-term research project investigating the
mental and physical diseases associated with aging as they occur in
elderly members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame community, employing
annual assessments and postmortem examinations of their brains. Details
the ongoing work in the What's New and FAQ sections and in lists of
publications and media reports, and provides abstracts of papers and a
history of the nuns. Affords an interesting look into the many components
of detailed medical research."
- American Geriatrics
Society.
UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Surveillance Unit. Includes full text of its
annual reports.
"Clinical
Psychopharmacology Seminar 1996-1997." Material from the University of
Iowa's Virtual Hospital.
Pediatrics:
- CDC Growth Charts: United States
2000
- Pediatric Database
(PEDBASE) Homepage
- GeneralPediatrics.com.
- Child
Neurology Society.
ClinicalTrials.gov: Public
information about current research studies.
The
University of Pennsylvania's OncoLink offers detailed
information concerning oncology issues. CANCERLIT
Topic Searches: Neurologic Causes and the Pediatric Oncology
Branch of the National Cancer Institute are informative websites. SEER ("Surveillance,
Epidemiology, and End Results") offers a searchable database from the
National Cancer Institute.
GENEtests-GENEclinics: Medical genetics
knowledge base, developed by the University of Washington.
Global
monitoring and alerting systems for new and re-emerging infectious diseases:
The World Health Organization's
EMC Division.
National Guideline
Clearinghouse -- The NGC is a resource for evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines. It is sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research in partnership with the American Medical Association and the
American Association of Health Plans.
Physical-injury prevention and medical care: trauma.org.
Health
Law and Legal Issues: - Jurist: The Legal Education Network
by Professor Bernard J. Hibbitts of the University of Pittsburgh
School of Law - Cornell University's Supreme Court Collection.
Quackwatch, a site which examines
fraud, quackery, and snake oil in health care.
"Psychiatric News": Biweekly
reports from the American Psychiatric Association.
Medicon: A searchable database of
medical conferences around the world.
MDChoice.com: Offering
searches of peer-evaluated medical and health-care information.
The
day's medical and health-care news: Reuters Health reports.
P\S\L
Consulting Group's Doctor's
Guide to the Internet. Includes links to current news reports.
Amedeo -- Medical information.
National Academy Press:
Full-text reports from the National Academy of Sciences, including the
Institute of Medicine.
Medical Informatics
The effect
of spam on e-mail use. (Pew Foundation, .pdf file)
Virtual Reality Pain Control,
from the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington.
Internet Health
Coalition.
Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center on Telerehabilitation.
Assistive
Technologies Research
Educational Applications
- "Principles of Good Practice
in Distance Education and Their Application to Professional Education and
Training in Psychology" (A report from the American Psychological
Association, 2002).
- Web Teaching
Guide from Sarah Horton of Dartmouth.
- Educause: "Transforming
education through information technologies." Includes the Cause/Effect
and Educause Review
online journals.
- In Toronto, Seneca College's Centre for New Technologies in Teaching
and Learning, an example of a cooperative initiative that "will offer
faculty the opportunity to work in a team environment to develop new tools
to enhance the teaching and learning process. Faculty are able to share
their expertise with other faculty who are just starting out on the road
to using new technologies."
- "Teaching in the
Switched On Classroom": A book by Kent L. Norman (1997).
E-mail
Applications: What roles might the use of e-mail and other electronic
communications take in health care? Here is a sampling of ideas, guidelines,
and issues:
- "Guidelines for
the Clinical Use of Electronic Mail with Patients", offered by the
American Medical Informatics Association (Journal of the AMIA,
January/February 1998).
- Think-and-Link: A research
program examining applications of e-mail for use by individuals with
cognitive disorders.
- Electronic Patient
Centered Communication Resource Center by Daniel Sands.
- Guidelines for
Physician-Patient Electronic Communication, from the AMA.
- Use of
E-mail, from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
- "eRisk
Guidelines," from Medem.
- "E-Encounters":
A November 2001 report by MacDonald, Case, and Metzger for the California
Healthcare Foundation.
"This report is intended to serve as an information
resource for organizations looking into or actively engaged in
Web-based physician-patient communication. It introduces the possible
forms that these exchanges can take, reviews the state of the
practice, and offers practical advice from early adopters. The report
is based on information gathered from the latest literature, a review
of vendor products and approaches, and interviews with vendor staff,
project managers, and physician users (see the Appendix for a list of
interviewees). Because there is still little formal research on the
subject of e-encounters, much of the information provided is
necessarily anecdotal." - "A Proposed
Solution for Addressing the Challenge of Patient Cries for Help Through an
Analysis of Unsolicited Electronic Mail," by D.M. D'Alessandro, M.P.
D'Alessandro, & S.I. Colbert, presenting their experience at the
University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital website (Pediatrics, June
2000).
- "Towards
ethical guidelines for dealing with unsolicited patient emails and giving
teleadvice in the absence of a pre-existing patient-physician relationship
- Systematic review and expert survey," by G. Eysenbach (Journal of
Medical Internet Research, March 2000).
- "A
Question of Duty: Common Law Legal Issues Resulting from Physician
Response to Unsolicited Patient Email Inquiries," an editorial by P.C.
Kuszler (Journal of Medical Internet Research, September 2000).
smart mobs
American
Psychological Association Guidelines for Citing Electronic References.
Conferencing on the
Web.
Journal of Online
Behavior.
Journal of Medical
Internet Research.
American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA), including abstracts from its journal.
Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication.
Affective
Computing: Integrating the psychology of emotions, neuroscience, and
computer-system and interface designing (MIT Media Lab). And, also, BlueEyes
from IBM -- including the "Emotion Mouse" and "SUITOR" projects.
"The
Psychology of Cyberspace" by John Suler. From the preface: "The purpose
of this online hypertext book (web site) is to explore the psychological
dimensions of environments created by computers and online networks. It is
intended as an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the various
psychological components of cyberspace and how people react to and behave
within it."
Pew's
"Internet and American
Life" project.
Office for the Advancement
of Telehealth, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"The Psychology of
Menu Selection": A book by Kent L. Norman (1991).
"Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," by the World Wide Web Consortium (05 May
1999).
Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography -- "...presents selected articles, books, electronic
documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly
electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks..."
Ubiquity from the ACM.
UTMB Teletraining Institute:
Offering distance-learning courses in telemedicine applications.
NIH Center for Information
Technology.
Neurovisualization Laboratory.
This University of Virgina website examines "neurovisualization," which is
the integration and application of advances in both computer and
neuroimaging technologies for use in neurosurgery. Discusses methods to
visualize three-dimensional rotatable images from two-dimensional
neuroradiology, hand-held hardware interfaces and other robotics,
surgery-at-a-distance remote instrumentation and teleneurosurgery, and
functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Alaska Telemedicine
Project.
Tribal
Connections in the Pacific Northwest.
Informatics for
Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel), described on its homepage
as "the largest non-military telemedicine effort ever funded by the federal
government."
Telemedicine Information Exchange.
Catalyst: "Information
on Computers in Psychology."
American Telemedicine Association.
International Society for Mental Health
Online.
The
medical informatics program at Columbia University, including its
online course outline, "Introduction to Medical
Informatics."
University of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Health Enhancement
Support System (CHESS).
Department of Defense Telemedicine:
Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC).
Stanford Medical
Informatics.
Health Level 7.
Duke
University's links to medical informatics
home pages around the world.
informatics: The Journal
of Informatics in Primary Care, offering its full text.
MIT Clinical Decision-Making Group
Homepage.
Telepsychiatry.
"Information from the Committee on Telemedical Services of the American
Psychiatric Association, concerning the current state of medical
informatics, telecommunications, and computer applications in mental-health
care. Includes a position statement on ethical use, and lists active
programs, organizations, journals, resources, newsgroups, and vendors.
Supplies a bibliography and links to related websites."
Issues
in medical record
privacy, from the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
The Society for the Internet in
Medicine, a British organization.
COACH: Canadian Organization for the
Advancement of Computers in Health.
SatelLife: Using the global span and
immediate reach of the Internet and other telecommunications technologies to
provide health-care services and information to developing countries and to
provide a logistical and communications vector in the tracking of emerging
infectious diseases.
Psychiatric Society for
Informatics.
The Menninger
Center for Telepsychiatry. "Medical informatics, computer, and
telecommunications applications “to enhance patient and provider access to
appropriate educational and clinical psychiatric services.” Highlights the
history of the center and its current activities, services, and staff, and
provides technical information."
The Brain
A
couple of exceptional atlases of the human brain may be found at the University
of Iowa website and at the University of
Washington website. The University of Washington website provides:
"Anatomical depictions of the human brain using both 2-D and 3-D imagery,
created from cadaver sections, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, and
computer reconstructions. Allows users to view the same image in different
formats: without notation, with outlines of major areas, and with labels for
landmarks. Also contains an interactive 'quiz' feature that permits users to
choose any page for review and then answer a series of questions about the
page's content."
The Whole Brain Atlas
from Harvard University.
Laboratory of
Neuro Imaging at UCLA.
The Stupp Laboratory (Northwestern University)
"Conversations with Neil's
Brain": Full-text contents of a book by William Calvin and George
Ojemann (1994).
Brain Pathology Online -- An
electronic journal with full-text articles.
A cranial nerve tutorial
from Yale University School of Medicine.
Anatomy
resources from the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin
Medical School include: Global Spinal
Cord '97, Global
Brainstem '97, Global
Cerebellum '97, Global Thalamus
'97, and the Nervous
Tissue Histology Atlas.
The Skull Module.
Includes QuickTime VR video options.
"Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the
World" -- An overview of sensory function, from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute.
Behavior
PsychWatch: Includes a weekly
newsletter.
"Psychology of
Intelligence Analysis" A 1999 review of decision making by a CIA
analyst.
Ottawa Health
Decision Centre
Professional Psychology Societies:
- American
Psychological Association (APA): Includes "The Monitor" and the "2002 Ethics Code."
- Canadian Psychological
Association/La Société canadienne de psychologie (CPA/SCP). - British Psychological
Society (BPS). - American Psychological Society
(APS): Includes "The
Observer." - Australian Psychological
Society.
psycPORT: Links to reports in the
news media related to psychology, provided by the APA.
The Psychology Virtual
Library.
Cognitive and Psychological
Sciences on the Internet and PsychWeb provide links to the
homepages of academic psychology departments, professional journals, and to
other information. Clinical
Psychology Resources provides similar links, but with fuller European
content.
The Academy of
Architecture for Health promotes excellence in the design of health-care
sites. Architectual decisions that have an impact upon the elderly are
discussed at the Environment and
Gerontology Network and The
Center for Health Design (CHD) websites. The CHD is a "Nonprofit
organization promoting the planning of health-enhancing environments in the
design of hospitals, clinics, and elder-care facilities. Offers a gallery of
designs and case studies; details about the center, its officers, and its
annual symposium; ordering information for “A Guide to Conducting Healthcare
Facility Visits”; and articles from the center's Aesclepius newsletter and
the Journal of Health Care Design. The site lists many hospital and
health-care facilities that the center considers to be exemplary places to
experience design successes."
Who's
that in the mirror? The Face Recognition
home page.
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
Depression and Related Affective
Disorders Association.
School Psychology
Resources Online.
Child & Family Canada/Enfant & famille
Canada: Resources for parenting and child care. "Consortium of more
than 40 Canadian nonprofit organizations “committed to the health and
well-being of children and their families.” Includes activity plans and
lesson outlines for teachers; broad and detailed information for parents
about young children, their schooling, and potential problems during their
development; and material for child-care professionals and students in
training. The site is available in English and French."
American Pain Society.
Research Institute on Addictions.
Delusional Parasitosis --
from the UC Davis Center for Biosystematics.
National Center for Education Statistics.
Aphasia
Academy of Aphasia
The National Aphasia Association (NAA) .
"Basic information about aphasia, from a nonprofit organization that
“promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to
assist people with aphasia and their families.” Features nontechnical fact
sheets and reading resources, newsletters, and research reports. Includes a
helpful list of advice on communicating with an aphasic person. This is a
worthy site for persons confronting aphasia. The “NAA Pen Pals” and “People
Helping People” sections are especially user-friendly, providing online and
community contacts for patients, caregivers, and family members."
Harold Goodglass Aphasia
Research Center.
The National Center for
Neurogenic Communication Disorders. The site houses several listservs
called Centernet.
British Aphasiology Society.
American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Neuroscience, Philosophy, Artistic, and
Other Applications
Neurosciences on the Internet. Neil A.
Busis, M.D. has created and maintains an excellent collection of
neuroscience links. "Definitive, comprehensive guide to the
brain-behavior resources that are available online. Provides well-indexed
links to websites, and lists forums, discussion groups, mailing lists,
journals, software, reference material, institutions, and images. Includes a
peer-reviewed “Original Contributions” section, which posts a variety of
submitted neuroscience-related material. Links are frequently monitored and
updated to promote fresh and successful exploration. Editorial selection of
recommended websites is featured in a “Best Bets” section. In all, this is
an excellent starting point for any online exploration of the world of
neuroscience."
Dream
Anatomy (Anatomical art through the ages).
Bioethics for
Beginners
Bioethics Resources on the Web
from the NIH.
American Medical Writers
Association.
Association of Neuroscience
Departments & Programs.
Society for Neuroscience.
International Brain Research
Organization (IBRO).
Neuroscience
Education -- Categorized page of links.
Artificial
Neural Networks -- "Your gateway to research groups and companies
involved in Neural Networks/Connectionism and related activities. Sites are
listed by country and by alphabetical order of the home institution." "What are
Artificial Neural Networks?"
International Neural Network
Society.
"A Window on My
Mind" -- Poetry and neurological disorders. Offered by John Lester of
the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
International
Society for the History of the Neurosciences.
Sabbatical Homes:
Real estate and rental options specific to academics, clinicians, and other
professionals on the move.
Literature, Cognition
& the Brain is a collection of research findings "at the
intersection of literary studies, cognitive theory, and neuroscience."
Contemporary Philosophy of
the Mind: An Annotated Bibliography offers thousands of links to matters
philosophical.
"Freud: Conflict and
Culture" -- A museum exhibit from 2000.
Anthony Risser
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