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Links pertaining to Central Nervous System Diseases | |
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| Nerve Cells [Lodish et al.] - Molecular Cell Biol., Chap 21, via NLM (US) | ||
| Cranial Nerve Anatomy - Knowledge Weavers, Utah (US) | ||
| The Human Brain [JD MacArthur] | ||
| The DANA Foundation - (US) | ||
| Electroencephalography (EEG) - Wikipedia | ||
| About Normal EEG Variants [S Louis] - eMedicine | ||
| The Global Brainstem '97 , the Cerebellum '97 , the Thalamus '97 , the Spinal Cord '97 - Univ. of Wisconsin (US) | ||
| Brain Injury Links and Spinal Cord Injury Links | ||
| Mental Disorders Links |
| Brain Functions and Map - Centre for Neuro Skills | |||
| Brain Diseases (pathol. images and text) - eAtlas/Univ of Connecticut (US) | |||
| The Whole Brain Atlas - Atlas Project/Harvard Medical School et al. (US) | |||
| Anatomy of the Brain - AANS |
| Conclusions from the First Scientific Workshop of Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome - NINDS/NIH (US) | |||||
| About Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome [Hanna and Hanna] - eMedicine | |||||
| Genetic aspects of Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome - OMIM/NLM (US) | |||||
| Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome - Orpha.Net (FR) |
| Huntington's Disease Advocacy Center , by patients, for patients and caregivers, via MGH (US) | |||||
| Caring for People with Huntington's Disease - Kansas Univ. Med. C. (US) | |||||
| The Huntington's Disease Association Online - (UK) | |||||
| the HD lighthouse | |||||
| Huntington's Chorea MRI Images - Harvard Medical Web (US) | |||||
| Huntington's Disease Information [R Davis] - Univ. of Chicago/Library (US) | |||||
| Huntington's Disease Society of America | |||||
| International Huntington Association | |||||
| HOPES - Huntington's Outreach Project for Education, at Stanford - (US) | |||||
| Facing Life with a Lethal Gene [A Harmon] - NY Times/Hereditary Disease Foundation 2007 | |||||
| The Genetics of Huntington's Disease [D Collins] - KUMC (US) | |||||
| Presymptomatic Testing for Huntington's Disease. Genetic Counseling. [A Walsh], 1999 | |||||
| About Huntington's Disease - OMIM, NCBI (US) | |||||
| About the huntingtin gene - Wikipedia | |||||
| Hereditary Disease Foundation - (US) | |||||
| Gene HD (Chromosome 4) - NCBI |
| About Meige's Syndrome [GW Paulson] | |||||
| Hemifacial Spasm Association | |||||
| A note about Jaw-opening dystonia (Brueghel's syndrome) [Miyaoka et al.; abstract only] - Eur J Neurol, Nov 2003, via PubMed | |||||
| 'De Gaper' [painting by Pieter Breughel, the Older] - (NL) | |||||
| See also Blepharospasm (, Benign Essential) [links] |
| About Multiple System Atrophy - We Move | |||||
| Multiple System Atrophy [Diedrich and Robertson] - eMedicine |
| About Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy [fact sheet] - NINDS (US) | ||||||
| The OPCA (Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy) Awareness site - (CA) | ||||||
| Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy [Quinn and Kalpana] - eMedicine |
| Shy-Drager Syndrome - NINDS (US) | ||||||
| On Shy-Drager Syndrome/Multiple System Atrophy - Mayo Clinic (US) | ||||||
| Multiple System Atrophy (Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy, Striatonigral Degeneration, Shy-Drager syndrome) - Merck Manual | ||||||
| Multiple System Atrophy [Diedrich and Robertson] - eMedicine | ||||||
| The Autonomic Dysfunction Center at Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville (US) | ||||||
| A Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) FAQ - SDS/MSA Support Group | ||||||
| The European Multiple System Atrophy Study Group | ||||||
| About Hypotension, Orthostatic (Shy-Drager Syndrome) - OMIM(NLM (US) |
| About Ramsay Hunt Syndrome - (US) | |||||
| About Ramsay Hunt (Paralysis) Syndrome [D Awasthi] - e-Medicine | |||||
| About Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Type II - NINDS/NIH (US) | |||||
| This 49 y/o female... (Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Type II) |
| About Lewy Body Disease - Helpguide | ||||||
| The Lewy Body Disease Association | ||||||
| Dementia with Lewy Bodies - A Distinct Non-Alzheimer Dementia Syndrome? [Ince et al., 1998] - via Univ. of Nottingham (UK) | ||||||
| Dementia with Lewy Bodies [HA Crystal] - e-Medicine |
| Briefly about Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - BBC/Medical Notes (UK) | |||||
| Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy , Inc. | |||||
| On Progressive Supranuclear Palsy [info for patients and relatives] - Neurology, Nov 2008 | |||||
| The European Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association | |||||
| Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Rating Scale and Staging System - via WeMove | |||||
| About Aspiration Pneumonia [P Le Comte] - eMedicine |
| Tourette Syndrome - Wikipedia | |||||
| About Tourette Syndrome - NINDS (US) | |||||
| The US National Tourette Syndrome Assoc., Inc , including e.g. Tourette Syndrome: much more than tics [SH Zinner] | |||||
| Tourette Syndrome [Hawley and Gray] - eMedicine | |||||
| Gilles De La Tourette Syndrom /Deutschland - (DE) | |||||
| Tourette Action - (UK) | |||||
| Tourette's syndrome and creativity [O Sacks] - BMJ, Dec 1992, via PubMedCentral | |||||
| Tourette actionSyndrome: Now What? [last update 2007?] | |||||
| Links to info on Tourette Syndrome - Internet Mental Health (US) | |||||
| Tourette Syndrome 'Plus' [LE Packer] |
| Brain Abscess [W Ernoehazy] - eMedicine |
| About Machado-Joseph Disease - OMIM, NCBI (US) | |||||||
| Machado Joseph Disease (and the Jewish connction) - MazorNet | |||||||
| The Ataxia MJD Research Project , Inc. | |||||||
| Machado-Joseph Disease - Wikipedia |
| About Dandy-Walker Syndrome [Incesu and Khosla] - eMedicine | |||||
| Dandy-Walker Syndrome [AM Yilmaz] | |||||
| Dandy Walker Syndrome - Wikipedia | |||||
| Dandy Walker Syndrom [in German] - (DE) | |||||
| Dandy-Walker Syndrome [fetal MRI images] - Harvard (US) |
| About Friedreich's Ataxia - MDA (AU) | ||||||
| Friedreich's Ataxia information - MDA (US) | ||||||
| Friedreich's Ataxia - GeneTests | ||||||
| Friedreich's Ataxia Parents Group [S Kittel] - Colorado (US) |
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| The Blood Supply of the Brain - Neuroscience for Kids, Univ of Washington | ||||
| Cerebral Circulation [Y Mokhtar] - DoctorsLounge | ||||
| The Cerebrovascular Disorders program at UCSF/Neurological Surgery (US) | ||||
| Link found between history of periodontitis and cerebrovascular disease in men - Annals of Neurology, via EurekAlert, Jun 2009 | ||||
| About Causes of Increased Intracranial Pressure - FP notebook | ||||
| Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases |
| Ischemic Stroke [Becker and Wira] - eMedicine |
| About Transient Ischemic Attack ( TIA, 'mini stroke' ) - Mayo Clinic (US) | ||||||
| Transient Ischemic Attack ( TIA, 'mini stroke' ) - Wikipedia | ||||||
| About Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) - American Heart Association | ||||||
| Is It A Mini-stroke? Three Clinical Features Identified To Avoid Misdiagnosis Of Transient Ischemic Attacks - Science Daily, Nov 2008 | ||||||
| Transient Ischemic Attack [JFX Naradzay] - eMedicine | ||||||
| Statins after Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack - Stroke, 2004;35:1023 | ||||||
| On Transient Ischemic Attack and Surgical Management by Endarterectomy [K Fathie] | ||||||
| Transient Ischemic Attack/Minor Stroke [algorithm] |
| Vascular Dementia: Diagnosis, Management and Possible Prevention [Sachdev et al.] - eMJA, 1999 | |||||
| Vascular Dementia [Alagiakrishnan and Masaki] - eMedicine | |||||
| Vascular Dementia [Ott and Grace], 1997 | |||||
| About Binswanger's Disease - NINDS/NIH (US) | |||||
| On the Mardi Gra bomber and Binswanger's Disease - BBC/Medical Notes (UK) |
| Corticobasal Ganglionic Degeneration (CBGD) (not on MeSH) | |||||
| Cortical Basal Ganglionic Degeneration [AM Barrett] - eMedicine |
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| Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) - CDC (US) | |||||
| BSE and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns - CDC/EID, Dec 2000 (US) | |||||
| The CJD/BSE/Mad Cow Disease - British Medical Journal (UK) | |||||
| About Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - WHO | |||||
| About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - OMIM, NCBI (US) | |||||
| A case (MRI) of suspected CJD - WebPath, U of Utah |
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| On Viral infections of the central nervous system - Merck Manuals | ||||
| Encephalitis and Meningitis - NINDS/NIH (US) | ||||
| Types of Encephalitis - Encephalitis Information Resource (UK) | ||||
| Encephalitis Information Resource - Glaxo Merseyside (UK) | ||||
| See also under Encephalitis, Arbovirus |
| About Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) - Contact-a-Family | |||||
| ME Research UK | |||||
| Clinical Features of M.E./CFS [BM Hyde] - Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation (AU) | |||||
| See also under Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic [links] |
| West Syndrome Support Group - (UK) | ||||||
| About West Syndrome - ILAE | ||||||
| West Syndrome [Glauser and Morita] - eMedicine | ||||||
| Eddie's , and Jason's stories (West Syndrome) |
| Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - CSA, Portland (US) | |||||
| Friends of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - (UK) | |||||
| About Landau-Kleffner Syndrome - NIDCD/NIH (US) |
| Migraine Headache Overview - eMedicine | ||||||
| Migraine Action Association - (UK) | ||||||
| iMigraine.net , and about Migraine with aura [T Troost] | ||||||
| Migraine Relief Center (Imitrex) - Glaxo, Inc.. | ||||||
| On Migraine Triggers - The Migraine Trust | ||||||
| Treatment of Pediatric Migraine - Univ of Virginia Health System, Neurogram Winter 2003 | ||||||
| The Treatment of Migraine Headache: Sumatriptan Jun '97 - Conrad Notes | ||||||
| A Migraine Analysis Tool - Meniscus.com | ||||||
| Help For Headaches | ||||||
| Ronda's Migraine Page [R Solberg] - (US). |
| About Hydrocephalus - Assoc for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus (UK) | ||||
| Hydrocephalus - AANS (US) | ||||
| The Hydrocephalus Foundation - MGH (US) | ||||
| The Hydrocephalus Clinical Program at UCLA/Neurosurgery | ||||
| Int'l Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus | ||||
| US National Hydrocephalus Foundation | ||||
| Hydrocephalus Fact Sheet - NINDS (US) | ||||
| Hydrocephalus Center - O'Reilly & Assoc. | ||||
| Hydrocephalus and its treatment [S Allanach] | ||||
| About Endoscopic third ventriculostomy - SUNY Upstate Medical Univ. (US) | ||||
| About Shunt surgery for Hydrocephalus - YourSurgery |
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| About Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus - Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. | |||||
| Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. A Potentially Reversible Dementia - Univ of Virginia Health System, Neurogram Fall 2002 | |||||
| Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus [A D'Abreau] | |||||
| Radiological aspects on Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus [Wilson and Islam] - eMedicine | |||||
| Management of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus [Verrees and Selman] - AAFP (US) | |||||
| Surgery for shunt implantation - Chicago Inst Neurosurg Neuroresearch (US) | |||||
| About Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus - UCLA/Neurosurgery |
| About Cerebral Hypoxia - ADAM, via MedlinePlus | ||||
| Cerebral Hypoxia - NINDS | ||||
| Hypoxic-Anoxic Brain Injury - Family Caregiver Alliance (US) |
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| About Pseudotumor Cerebri - NINDS (US) | |||||
| Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension [MS Gans] - eMedicine | |||||
| Pseudotumor Cerebri [J Goodwin] - e-Medicine | |||||
| 10 Myths about Intracranial Hypertension - Intracranial Hypertension Research Foundation | |||||
| Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension UK | |||||
| Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (Pseudotumor Cerebri) - U of Iowa (US) | |||||
| A 20 year old woman .... (Pseudotumor Cerebri) [Y Shiuey] - DJO |
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| The Central Pain Syndrome Alliance [M Simpson] | ||||
| About Central Pain (Dejerine-Roussy) Syndrome [D Berg] - PainOnline |
| A tutorial on Central Nervous System Infections - Univ of Leeds/Microbiology (UK) | |||
| Central Nervous System (Viral) Infections - Merck Manual | |||
| Infections of the Central Nervous System [S Evans] - S Illinois Univ (US) |
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| Herpes Simplex Encephalitis [T Pritz] - eMedicine (US) | |||||||
| Herpes Encephalitis MRI - Whole Brain Atlas/Harvard (US) | |||||||
| About Herpes Encephalitis - epilepsy.com | |||||||
| A Case of Herpes Encephalitis - uhrad.com | |||||||
| About Acyclovir (Zovirax) - MedlinePlus (US) |
| On Aseptic Meningitis - Merck Manuals | |||||
| Viral Meningitis [Fact Sheet] - New York State Dept. of Health (US) | |||||
| The diagnostic accuracy of Kernig's sign, Brudzinski's sign, and nuchal rigidity in adults with suspected meningitis [Thomas et al., abstract only] - Clin Infect Dis, Jul 2002 | |||||
| Viral Meningitis information - MFA | |||||
| First Treatment for Viral Meningitis Proves Effective in Children (oral pleconaril) - Doctor's Guide, 1999 | |||||
| A case of Idiopathic Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis - BCMA | |||||
| Meningitis Information - The Nat'l Meningitis Trust (UK) | |||||
| Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis [Mody and Johnson] - eMedicine | |||||
| Pleconaril: An Anti-Picornavirus [M Lipinski] | |||||
| Mollaret's Meningitis - Patient UK | |||||
| About Mollaret's Meningitis - Meningitis Foundation of America |
| The Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center , and the Transverse Myelitis Association | |||||
| Acute Transverse Myelitis - Merck Manual |
| About Poliomyelitis - ADAM/Univ of Maryland | ||||||
| Poliomyelitis - Wikipedia | ||||||
| About the Polio vaccine - CDC (US) | ||||||
| Poliomyelitis , and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative - WHO (CH) |
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| Post Polio Syndrome Central - S:t Johns | ||||||
| Post Polio Syndrome - March of Dimes | ||||||
| Post Polio Health International | ||||||
| Lincolnshire Post-Polio Network , and its Library Catalogue [T Dempsey] - (UK) | ||||||
| Polio-Spätfolgen e.V. [K-H Jeschke; in German] | ||||||
| Video clips: Shades of Grey. Post Polio Syndrome [S de Graaff] - YouTube/Polio Network Victoria (AU) | ||||||
| The Polio Experience Network |
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| Arachnoiditis mini fact sheet - NINDS (US) | |||||
| Arachnoiditis [A Holz] - eMedicine | |||||
| Arachnoiditis Sufferers Action and Monitoring Society - New Zealand, Inc. | |||||
| Arachnoiditis Information and Support | |||||
| Adhesive Arachnoiditis and Poisoned Medicine: An Editorial - The Burton Report |
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| Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome [C Walton] - eMedicine | |||||
| A 27 year old woman with blurred central vision OS and headache (Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's Disease) [Y Shiuey] - DJO |
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| The Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine 1997 goes to Stanley B Prusinger | ||||
| About the Prion Diseases and the BSE Crisis [S. Prusiner] - Science Magazine (US) | ||||
| Prion diseases - Univ of Leicester (UK) | ||||
| Prion diseases [M Poidinger] - Virlogy Down Under (AU) | ||||
| Characteristics of Prions - Michigan State U. (US) and Genetics - Univ of Illinois (US) | ||||
| About Prion Protein - OMIM, NCBI (US). | ||||
| Prion Picture Gallery - via Mad-Cow.Org |
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| About Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease - Merck | |||||
| Gerstmann(-Sträussler-Scheinker) Disease - NINDS |
| On Familial and Sporadic Fatal Insomnia - SIGHTINGS, May 1999 | |||||
| Fatal familial insomnia - Wikipedia | |||||
| About Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) [in German] - Onmeda | |||||
| About Fatal familial insomnia [AM Akroush] |
| On Kuru Epidemic - Wikipedia | |||||
| About Kuru, susceptibility to - OMIM, NCBI (US). | |||||
| Kuru [in German] - Onmeda |
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| Movement Disorders Society | |||
| Types of Movement Disorders - Harvey Cushing Institute (US) | |||
| Gait Disorders [Fung and Nagy; student project] - McGill Univ. (CA) | |||
| WeMove: Worldwide Education & Awareness for Movement Disorders | |||
| Drug-Induced & Tardive Movement Disorders [GM Vernon, 1991] | |||
| Botulinum Toxin: A Deadly Poison Sheds Its Negative Image - Ann Int Med Oct '96, ACP | |||
| Botulinum Toxin Injections for Muscle Spasms [patientinfo] - Am Fam Physicians |
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| Coping with Essential Tremor - IETF | ||||
| Brief note about the Genetics of Essential Tremor - NCBI/NLM (US) |
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| About Tic Disorders - AACAP (US) | ||||
| Tic Disorders - European Description - Internet MentalHealth |
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| Complete Resolution of Myelopathy In A Patient With Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Case Report [Ertan et al.] - Internet J of Neurology, 2/1 | |||
| See also under Spinal Diseases [links] |
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| Syringomyelia Fact Sheet - NINDS (US) | ||||
| Syringomyelia - American Syringomyelia Alliance Project | ||||
| Syringomyelia [Al-Shatoury and Galhom] - eMedicine | ||||
| Syringomyelia [conference summary, 2007] | ||||
| About Syringomyelia - Neurobiology of Disease (US) |
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