On-Line Education: Neurology

• Neurological/Psychiatric System Multimedia Teaching files.
  
  
• Amyloid. Vascular Beta-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease angiopathy is produced by proliferating and degenerating smooth muscle cells. Abstract, images.
  
  
• Primary Care Teaching Module: Weakness and Dizziness. Learning objectives, clinical sceanrios, main teaching points. Prepared by Stanford University Division of General Internal Medicine.
  
  
• Welcome to the NeuroMuscular Web! Lots of educational materials from NeuroMuscular Research Center, Boston University. Electrophysiology Lab. Electrical Stimulation Lab. Motion Analysis Lab. Motor Control Lab. Motor Unit Lab. Muscle Fatigue Lab. Surface EMG.
  
  
• Neurosciences on the Internet. The site contains a searchable index of neuroscience resources available on the World Wide Web and other parts of the Internet. Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human neurological diseases are covered. Check out the Best Bets page, now with an animated neuron!
  
  
• CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS. Cornell University Medical College tutorial with 13 cases presentations and images.
  
  
• CNS PATHOLOGY INDEX. This seria of 135 images is demonstrating gross and microscopic pathologic findings for a variety of disease processes. A short description accompanies each image..
  
  
• Muscle, Nerve, and Soft Tissue Pathology Index. Thirty five images demonstrating gross and microscopic pathologic changes in nerve and muscle.
  
  
• NEUROPATHOLOGY SMALL GROUPS. The following cases are designed to illustrate the clinical presentations, pathological changes, and treatment of common neurological diseases. This session will familiarize you with the differential diagnoses in each clinical setting.
  
  
• Examination 1 in Pathology of CNC. Questions 1 - 55. The multiple choice questions in the CNS Pathology.
  
  
• Examination 2 in Pathology of CNS. Questions 56 - 99. The multiple choice questions in the CNS Pathology.
  
  
• Examination in Muscle Pathology. Questions 1 - 22. The multiple choice questions in the Muscle Pathology.
  
  
• Whole Brain Atlas. Normal Brain, Cerebrovascular Disease, Neoplastic Disease, Degenerative Disease, Inflammatory or Infectious Disease. Presented by Keith A. Johnson, M.D., and J. Alex Becker
  
  
• AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY TEACHING FILES. Neuromuscular disease case presentations with discussions of etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and other general aspects.
  
  
• Brain Aneurysms. Case studies of brain aneurysms, aneurysm visualization overview, patient scan protocol, image display and analysis protocol, examples in the literature, aortic aneurysms, and other servers on aneurysms.
  
  
• Case Presentations from the Neurosurgical Services at NYU. Brain Tumors. Spine Cerebral Vascular Lesions. Movement Disorders. Skull Base Tumors. Trauma.
  
  
• Aneurysm Lecture. Presented by Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Professor of Surgery Columbia University and the St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital.
  
  
• MARFAN SYNDROME. Description, phenotype, clinical features, biochemical features, lolecular genetics, pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical management, and many other topics.
  
  
• ASPARGER SYNDROME. Some guidelines for assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
  
  
• Genetics Research. Synopsis of CMT genetic types. Genetics Tutorial.The Human Genome Project. Sites participating in the Human Genome Project.
  
  
• CMT Medical Alert. Lists of drugs toxic to nerves published by the CMTI and the CMTA. The lists are not identical. Both lists are provided.
  
  
• Genetics Testing. CMT-1A and CMT-X DNA genetics testing in Europe, Australia, and USA. CMT-1B DNA testing. Athena Diagnostics.
  
  
• Images in Neuroscience. Human Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology. Neuroscience Images and Methods. Medical Imaging Centers. Medical Illustration. Medical Imaging Indexes. Neuroanatomy Atlases of Animals.
  
  
• NEUROONCOLOGY RESOURSES. Massachusetts General Hospital Harward Medical School has created site containing plenty of information and related links on this topic.
  
  
• Pathology of Degenerative CNS Diseases. Mini-Tutorials presented by The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education.
  
  
• Muscle, Nerve, and Soft Tissue Pathology Index. . Plenty of scanned images of dystrophic muscle. Normal and abnormal skeletal muscle and peripheral nerve images, as well as soft tissue pathology images are presented.
  
  
• Neuropsychology. Clinical Case Examples.
  
  
• Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery. Medical College of Georgia represents Epilepsy Surgery Program, Wada Testing.
  
  
• Infectious Diseases of the Central Nervous System. This tutorial is designed to provide an overview of the various infectious disease processes which involve the CNS. Department of Pathology, The University of Iowa College of Medicine.
  
  
• New Developments about Brain Disorders. This site that helps you to keep up with recent developments in the understanding, treatment and diagnosis of brain disorders including (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia, stroke, drug addiction, lissencephaly, and many others.
  
  
• Brainstem Review Sheets and Graphic Resources. Welcome to the University of Wisconsin, Medical School's central World Wide Web resource providing a comprehensive information on Brainsteme intended for use by students and physicians.
  
  
• Global Spinal Cord. The Global Spinal Cord is the Web edition of the neuroanatomy coursebook used by first-year medical students at the University of Wisconsin Medical School (UWMS). The site in the process of development.
  
  
• Sleep Medicine Home Page. This home page lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research, federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups. .
  
  
• PTH 1366 Neuroanatomy. Practice Exams (list of previous exams and quizzes) at Northeastern University for the 1-st year medical students. The purpose is to prepare you for the real thing, the in-class exams.
  
  
• Neurotrophic Factors. On Neurotrophic Factors - Birkbeck College, London (UK).
  
  
• PARKINSON'S WEB. News and research updates on Parkinson's disease. Go to the main manu if you want to look at medications, signs and simptoms, new publications, and related links.
  
  
• BRAIN MODEL TUTORIAL This tutorial is designed by Mark Darty at the University of Central Florida to teach the various parts of the brain and their functions.
  
  
• CNS TUMOR Here is the new WHO Classification of Tumors affecting the Central Nervous System.
  
  
• Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. Washington University at St. Louis represents current epilepsy news, epilepsy information, threads, and links.
  
  
• REB PAGE. RebPage is a web site that helps you to keep up with recent developments in the understanding, treatment and diagnosis of brain disorders.
  
  
• NYU Center for the Study and Treatment of Movement Disorders. Case presentations on stereotactic thalamotomy, stereotactic pallidotomy, neuroaugmentative procedures..
  
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• NeuroCentral The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of Columbia and the Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Center present NeuroCentral -- a physician’s resource for the electronic exchange of information pertaining to research, treatment, and management of seizure disorders.
  
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• Modelling the Behavior of Thalamic Neurons. Modelling the Behavior of Thalamic Neurons: VCLAMP & CCLAMP from John R. Huguenard (Stanford).
  
  

  Online publication: Neurology

• Alzheimer's Disease Review. This is an internet journal which offers discussion of the latest advances in Alzheimer's disease research and an overview of current issues.
  
  
• Journals and 'Zines. Here is list of links to nerologic journals. In some of them only contens, headers, and subscription information is available. Some of them contain the abstracts.
  
  
• Articles! Articles online relating to Alzheimer's disease are here.
  
  
• Links to Alzheimer's Disease Research. Look for additional journals and information available online.
  
  
• PARKINSON'S DISEASE. AAN 1994 Proceedings, Volume 4 Number 431. Neuroprotective strategies for Parkinson disease. Management stratgiesnfor improving levodopa responsiveness. Therapy of Parkinson's disese with dopaminergic agonists.
  
  
• CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDERS. AAN 1994 Proceedings. Volume 4 Number 248. Consciousness abnormalities. Thalamocortical resonance and cognition. Attention, working memory. Spatial awareness. Atteniton deficit disorders.
  
  
• DEMENTIA. AAN 1994 Proceedings Volume 4 Number 444. Diagnosis, epidemiology of mild dementia. Alzheimer's disease. Apoliprotein and Alzheimer's disease. Vascular dementias. Treatment of these conditions, etc...
  
  
• ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS ON BASAL GANGLIA DISORDERS. AAN 1994 Proceedings Volume 4 Number 240. Neurologic aspects of basal ganglia disorders. Multiple system atrophy. Management of complicated Parkinson's disease. Postraumatic movement disorders.
  
  
• ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS ON NEUROLOGY IN ELDERLY. AAN 1994 Proceedings.Volume 4 Number 144. Cognitive changes in aging. The neuroexam of an 80 years old patient. Motor slowing in normal aging. Motor performance changes in the elderly.Ceribrovascular changes in elderly. Sleep pathology in elderly. Delirium in older patients, etc...
  
  
• ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS ON PSYCHOTIC ILLNESSES. AAN 1994 Proceedings, Volume 4 Number 135. Mood disorders. The psychotic illness. Anxiety disorders. The personality disorders.
  
  
• Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Suggested reference list is assembled by the Education Committee of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and includes items covering both the practical and theoretic aspects of clinical electrophysiology.
  
  
• The Aneurysm Information Project. Aneurysm papers of the month are available for viewing from Dec, 1994 until present.
  
  
• Asperger's Disorder. Bibliography of Asperger's Disorder (1966-1996).
  
  
• AUTISM. Online Papers Related to Autism.
  
  
• AUTISM RESOURCES. Methods, Treatments, Programs.
  
  
• CMT References. Charcot-Marie-Tooth references and abstracts for the last thirty years are available on this page by using MEDLINEsearch.
  
  
• OMIM. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Very large listing of related MD - NMD online research papers.
  
  
• SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY. The Lycos Search on Spinal Muscular Atrophy. A long listing of ALL incidence of SMA's.
  
  
• NEUROMUCULAR DISORDERS. The Lycos Search on Neuromuscular Disorder. A long listing of ALL incidence of NMD's.
  
  
• DUCHENNE. The Lycos Search on Duchenne. A long listing of ALL incidence of Duchenne.
  
  
• MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. The Lycos Search on Muscular Dystrophy. A long listing of ALL incidence of MD.
  
  
• Electrical Stimulation Lab. Here is list of the most significant publications from researchers that have been associated with the lab in Neuromuscular Research Center in Boston. Abstracts are available.
  
  
• American Journal of Neuroradiology. The following articles have been selected as examples of AJNR content. To view them, you will have to configure your web browser to launch the Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 software for viewing .pdf format files. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free of charge at...
  
  
• NEUROWORLD. The Online Magazine of Neuromedicine.
  
  
• MedWeb: Electronic Newsletters and Journals. MedWeb publications on neurotopics
  
  
• Dopamine Receptors in the Human Brain. By Jeffrey M. Daly, M.D., and Stephen Salloway, M.D., Continuing Medical Education, Inc. and Psychiatric Times.
  
  
• Neurotransmitters and antidepressants. Articles on neurotransmitters and antidepressants.
  
  
• Malignant Brain Tumors a New Target for Gene Therapy. Recurrent glioblastoma multiforme focus of clinical trial. From The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
  
  
• Quality of Life Assessment and Interventions for Brain Tumor Patients. The Brain Tumor Center NEWSLETTER, June 1995. From The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
  
  
• The Journal of Neuroscience The Journal of Neuroscience on line. Browse and search all issues from May 1996 to October 1996. Full text of publications is available.
  
  
• The European Journal of Neuroscience This is a journal of broad scope ranging from the behavioural to the molecular, with a European focus but with a world-wide... Contents and abstracts are available from January 1996 onwards.
  
  
• Neuron on line Browse back and current issues of Neuron journal. Abstracts are available.
  
  
• Cell on line Browse back and current issues of this journal. Abstracts are available. Special offer on online subscription.
  
  
• Science magazine Browse back and current issues of this journal. Abstracts and summaries of publications are available.
  
  
• Age Ageing Tables of contents and abstracts are available from January 1996 onwards.
  
  
• Cerebral Cortex The journal publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus. Contents and abstracts are available from January 1996 onwards.
  
  
• Neurocase This is a rapid publication journal of both adult and child case studies Contents and abstracts of current issues are available from January 1996 onwards.