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Diseases and Disorders
Links pertaining to Neurologic Manifestations
 
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Contents:
Agnosia - Amnesia - Anomia - Aphasia - Apraxias - Back Pain - Brown-Sequard Syndrome - Cerebellar Ataxia - Chorea - Communication Disorders - Confusion - Dizziness - Dyslexia - Dystonia - Facial Paralysis - Fasciculation - Gait Disorders, Neurologic - Headache - Hemiplegia - Memory Disorders - Mental Retardation - Mutism - Myoclonus - Neck Pain - Nonverbal Learning Disorder (not on MeSH) - Olfaction Disorders - Pain - Paralysis - Phantom Limb - Prosopagnosia - Quadriplegia - Seizures - Spasm - Speech Disorders - Synesthesia (not on MeSH) - Tardive Dyskinesia (not on MeSH) - Taste Disorders - Torticollis - Tremor - Trismus - Unconsciousness - Vertigo -


      Cerebellar Ataxia   
      Classification of Ataxias - Washington U./School of Med. (US)
      About Episodic Ataxia - Wikipedia
      Hereditary Ataxia Overview - GeneTests
      The US National Ataxia Foundation - Minneapolis
      Int'l Network of Ataxia Friends


     Chorea   
     Sydenham's Chorea (St. Vitus' Dance, Rheumatic Chorea) - Adam, via MedlinePlus
     Sydenham Chorea - WeMove
     The legend about Vitus - Catholic Online Saints

    Tardive Dyskinesia (not on MeSH)
     Tardive Dyskinesia - Wikipedia

     Dystonia   
     Dystonia Dialogue , and about Dystonia Treatments - Dystonia Foundation (US)
     The Dystonias - NINDS/NIH (US)
     The Dystonia Society - (UK)
     The European Dystonia Portal
     A succsessful battle with dystonia - NIH News, 2004
     Dystonia - WeMove
     Misicians with Dystonia bulletin board
     Sensorimotor reorganization by proprioceptive training in musician's dystonia and writer's cramp [Rosenkranz et al] - Neurology, Jan 2008
     About Dystonia - Univ of Virginia Health System/Neurogram Spring 2001
     Primary Torsion Dystonia [Tabamo and Tagliati] - eMedicine
     US Nat'l Spasmodic Torticollis (Cervical Dystonia) Association

      Torticollis   
      The US National Spasmodic Torticollis Association
      Torticollis [Tao and McStay] - e-Medicine
      Torticollis in Children - Childrens Memorial Hospital, Chicago
      Three-dimensional spiral CT scanning in children with acute torticollis [Nicholson et al.; abstract only] - Int'l Orthopaedics 1999, via PubMed


     Myoclonus   
     About Myoclonus - NINDS
     The Opsoclonus Myoclonus Support Network
     On Palatal Myoclonus [TC Hain]

     Tremor   
     International Essential Tremor Foundation
     Classification of Tremor and Update on Treatment [Charles et al.] - Am Family Physician, Mar 1999
     Diagnosis and Management of the Patient with Tremor [KL Chou], 2004
     About Essential Tremor [Burke and Hauser] - eMedicine
     The UK National Tremor Foundation
     About Orthostatic Tremor - The OT Resource
     About Essential Tremor - Medtronic, Inc.
     Parkinson's-like Disorder Discovered in Grandfathers of Children With Fragile X Syndrome - Univ of California/Davis


    Gait Disorders, Neurologic   
    Cases in Clinical Gait Analysis [C Kirtley] - (AT)
    Gait Disorders learning module [Fung and Nagy] - McGill Univ. (CA)

    Neurobehavioral Manifestations   

     Communication Disorders   
     Communication Disorders [Melfi and Garrison] - eMedicine
     Strategies for Teaching Students with Communication Disorders - West Virginia Univ.
     Learning disabilities in mathematics (Dyscalculia) - LD Online
     Children with Communication Disorders - KidSource

       Anomia   
       Brief note about Anomia - Univ Kassel (DE)
       Anomia in patients with left inferior temporal lobe lesions [Antonucci et al.] - Aphasiology, 18, 2004

       Dyslexia   
       Int'l Dyslexia Association, IDA , including the some fact sheets
       Dyslexia Online
       The British Dyslexia Association
       Dyslexia:The Gift
       Dyslexia Teacher - World of Dyslexia Ltd
       What is Hyperlexia? , articles availabel at the American Hyperlexia Association

       Speech Disorders   
       Speech & Language Disorders - ASHA (US)
       About Cluttering - K12academics
       Stuttering Home Page [Harrison & Kuster] - via Mankato State Univ.
       The Stuttering Foundation of America
       Information on Stuttering [SD Thiele]
       The National Center for Stuttering - (US)
       The Stuttering Page [J Kalinowski] - East Carolina University (US)
       The British Stammering Association - (UK)
       The Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood
       CAPS - Canadian Assoc. for People Who Stutter (CA)
       On The Valsalva Mechanism and Stuttering [WD Parry, 1977] - (US)

        Aphasia   
        What is Aphasia? - NIDCD (US)
        Aphasia - MossRehab 2003
        US National Aphasia Association
        Primary Progressive Aphasia Handbook - Feinberg School of Medicine/NorthWestern U (US)
        Briefly about Broca Aphasia - Univ of Idaho (US)

        Mutism   
        About Selective Mutism [RK Helta]
        Selective Mutism Foundation - (US)
        About the book The Silence Within [GG Kervatt]

       Nonverbal Learning Disorder (not on MeSH)
        About Nonverbal Learning Disorder [S Thompson]


      Learning Disorders   

       Dyslexia   
      See another location


     Confusion   
     About Confusion - MedlinePlus
     Some brief notes about Mental Confusion - ScienceDaily
     Delirium in the Elderly: Medications, Causes, and Treatment [Mergenhagen and Arif] - US Pharmacist, 2008
     An educational case of Acute confusional state - Student BMJ, Dec 2002

     Consciousness Disorders   

      Unconsciousness   
      About Coma & Persistent Vegetative State [Fact Sheet] - NINDS (US)
      The Glasgow Coma Scale - Wikipedia
      Coma - Nova Online
      Coma Recovery Association, Inc.
      For Those Waiting While Someone Is In A Coma
      About Orthostatic Hypotension , and Syncope [TC Hain] - (US)
      On Unexplained fainting - Medtronic, Inc.


     Memory Disorders   
     Thinking and Remembering - The DANA Foundation, 2007,
     Shuffle Brain ("How does a brain store a mind?") [P. Pietsch] - Indiana Univ. (US)
     On Stress, Cortisol, and Memory Loss - McGill Reporter, Sep 2002
     How Stress Affects Memory - Franklin Institute
     Men and women differ in storing of emotional memories - UCI News
     Memory-related links from the Exploratorium exhibition
     On the formation of memory , research news from the Univ of Alabama (US)
     About the Hebbian Learning Rule [C Linster] - Cornell
     H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 [B carey] - N Y Times, Dec 4, 2008
     Learning and the Basal Ganglia [MJ Frank] - Cerebrum, Dec 2007/The DANA Foundation
     Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice (about NMDA, NR2B) [Tang et al.; Sep 1999] - Nootropics.com
     Brief (PPT) notes on Learning and Memory: Basic Mechanisms [D Dalhouse]
     On Memory Loss and Occasional Forgetfulness [A Reyes] - Discovery Health
     A Newsletter from the Memory Disorders Project at Rutgers Univ. (US)
     Retrieval of memories [P Young; PP slides]
     On Eyewitnesses' Testimonials in Court - FrontLine

      Amnesia   
      About Amnesia - HowStuffWorks
      Brief facts about Amnesia - BBC (UK)
      About Different types of Amnesia, and Causes of Amnesia - MedicalNews Today, Jul 2009
      On Amnesia - Univ of Waterloo (CA)


     Mental Retardation   
     Information sheets from The Arc (on intellectual and developmental disabilities) - (US)
     American Assoc. of Mental Retardation
     Multiple Congential Anomaly / Mental Retardation Syndromes [S Jablonski], NOTE: no longer maintained, but archived 2006 and available - NLM (US)

     Perceptual Disorders   

      Agnosia   
      Definitions of Agnosia and Related Terms [M Dubin] - Univ of Colorado
      On Visual and Auditory Agnosia - PsychNet (UK)
      Simultanagnosia. To see but not to see [Coslett and Saffran; Brain 1991, abstract] - via PubMed

       Prosopagnosia   
       Face Blind! [B Choisser], 2002
       On Prosopagnosia [C Burman], 2002


      Phantom Limb   
      On Phantom Pain - MayoClinic
      Phantom pain, and how to deal with it - The Amputee Website (CA)
      The Use of Electromyographic and Temperature Biofeedback for Treatment of Cramping and Burning Phantom Limb Pain [RA Sherman]
      Phantom Limb - Wikipedia


     Psychomotor Disorders   

      Apraxias   
      The Apraxia-Kids site, and its Apraxia-KIDS Library
      The Dyspraxia Foundation - (UK)
      What is Developmental Apraxia of Speech?
      The Dyspraxia Association - (IE)


    Neuromuscular Manifestations   

     Fasciculation   
     Isaacs Syndrome - NINDS (US)
     About Isaacs Syndrome - Socialstyrelsen (SE)
     Isaacs' Syndrome - Washington Univ., St Louis/Neuromuscular (US)

     Spasm   
     Hemifacial Spasm Association
     About Hemifacial Spasm management at Univ of Pittsburgh/Neurosurgery (US)
     Qs & As about MDV surgery and Hemifacial Spasms - Hemifacial Spasm Association, 2004

      Trismus   
      What is trismus? - The Oral Cancer Foundation
      Some Qs and As about Lock Jaw / Trismus - Dental Health Directory
      An example of Trismus therapy (TheraBite Rehab System - ATOS Medical


    Pain   
    Top 10 Myths of Chronic Pain - Hospital for Special Surgery, N.Y. (US)
    The Int'l Association for the Study of Pain , including a List of Pain Related Terms - IASP
    American Academy of Pain Management
    The American Pain Foundation , and the American Pain Society
    Pain.Com - Worldwide Congress on Pain
    Partners Against Pain
    About Endorphins - Wikipedia
    The Oxford Pain Internet Site - (UK)
    Nerve conduction (EMG) studies [JF Fabre]
    Pain Drawing [for describing location, quality, severity of pain] - AAPMR
    StopPain.org including Neuropathic Pain: a problem-based interactive module - Beth Israel Medical Center (US)
    The Neuropathic Pain Network
    The NIH Pain Consortium
    Managing Cancer Pain - NCI
    Cancer-Pain.org - ACOR
    Understanding Chronic Pain [R Bennett] - via Myalgia.Com
    About Leg Pain and Lower Extremity Arterial Disease - USC Center for Vascular Care (US)
    Burning Feet - Footcare Direct
    Redheads and Pain Reception - Neuroscience for Kids
    About Sex Differences in Pain [KJ Berkley, 1997, Abstract only ] - via PubMed
    Pain Medications , 2007 - Washington U., St Louis, MO (US)
    About some Nonprescription Pain Relievers - HospiceNet
    About Paracetamol (Acetaminophen) - Paracetamol Inf C, and about possible Adverse Reactions - Infomed Drug Guide
    About Morphine Sulphate (oral) - RXList (US)
    Internet Resources about Pain & Health - Mayday U. Peninsula Pain Project (US)

     Back Pain   
     On Back Pain in Children - Virtual Pediatric Hospital
     Where does it hurt? Understanding Low Back Pain - Spine-Health.com
     Back pain made simple. An approach based on principles and evidence [Bhangle et al.] - Cleveland Clinic J Med, Jul 2009
     Low Back Pain - NeurosurgeryToday (US)
     A Non-Surgical Approach to Low Back Pain [DR Murphy], 2000
     All About Back and Neck Pain - DePuy AcroMed
     Back Pain - Well Close Square Surgery (UK)
     Back Pain: Causes and Diagnoses - Back.com
     Masquerade: Medical causes of back pain [E Klineberg] - Cleveland Clinic J., Dec 2007, and a comment
     About Coccydynia
     Diagnosis and Management of Acute Back Pain - AAFP, Mar 2000

     Headache   
     American Council for Headache Education
     Headache and Cranial Neuralgia - a synopsis [note: Word file; E Valenstein]
     US National Headache Foundation
     The American Council for Headache Education
     More than just paracetamol [S Bradshaw] - StudentBMJ, May 2002
     Neuroimaging for Headache [J Cochrane Miller] - Radiology Rounds, Oct 2006, MGH (US)
     Help For Headaches
     Pediatric Headache [SM Overholt], 1994 - Baylor College
     Tension-Type Headache [Millea and Brodie] - AAFP, Sep 2002
     About Cervicogenic Headache [DJ Hurley] - CINN
     About Cervicogenic Headache [DJ Hurley] - CINN
     The Cluster Headache Support Group
     Post-Lumbar Puncture Headache [W Fearon] - CPMCnet (US)

     Neck Pain   
     Neck Pain: Causes and Diagnoses - NeckSurgery.com
     All About Back and Neck Pain - DePuy AcroMed


    Paralysis   
    Fundación Síndrome de Moebius
    Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
    The Cure Paralysis Now Advocacy Group
    Worlds Wheelchair Culture
    The Spinal Cord Injury Network - (US)
    See also under Craniocerebral Trauma and Spinal Cord Injuries
    About Paraplegia - RehabTeamSite, Miami (US)
    A set of Images (links) related to Paraplegia - GoldBamboo.com
    Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia [JK Fink] - Univ of Michigan (US)
    The Spastic Paraplegia Foundation

     Facial Paralysis   
     About Facial Paralysis - Neurototology Research Center (US)
     See also under Bell Palsy [links]
     Facial Paralysis [BR Alford] - Baylor College (US)
     Facial Nerve (VII) Paralysis - Washington Univ., St Louis (US)

     Hemiplegia   
     Brief notes about Hemiplegia - FPNotebook
     Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association , and the Hemi-Kids Support Group - (US)
     Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Foundation - (US), and some images - BrighamRad, Harvard (US)

     Paraplegia   

      Brown-Sequard Syndrome   
      About Brown-Sequard Syndrome - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
      Brown-Sequard Syndrome [C Vandenakker-Albanese] - eMedicine


     Quadriplegia   
     The Global Brainstem 97 - Neuroanatomy/Univ of Wisconsin (US)
     About Tetraplegia - RehabTeamSite, Miami (US)
     About Locked-In Syndrome - NINDS (US)
     The Locked-In Syndrome - Wikipedia


    Seizures   
    Seizure Disorders in the Elderly [Velez and Selwa] - AFP, Jan 2003
    Brief notes about Todd's paralysis - NINDS
    All About Seizure Dogs - Epilepsy Foundation
    About Seizure Service Dogs - Delta Society
    See also under Fever [links] - KIB (SE)

    Sensation Disorders   

     Dizziness   
     Coping with Dizziness
     Information about Dizziness, Imbalance and Hearing Disorders [TC Hain]
     On Dizziness due to TIA and Stroke [TC Hain] - (US)
     Dizziness and Postural Instability - Merck Manual of Geriatrics
     About the Epley's manuever (Canalith Repositioning Procedure (CRP)) - Sinus Institute N. Virginia (US)
     About Tullio's Phenomenon [TC Hain]
     About Vertigo and Dizziness

     Olfaction Disorders   
     The Organ of Smell - Gray's Anatomy 1918A
     Olfaction Research [JC Leffingwell]
     The Olfactory nerve - Stritch School of Med./Loyola Univ. (US)
     SenseLab , with Olfactory databases - Yale Univ. (US)
     Olfaction: a tutorial on the sense of smell [compiled by T Jacob]
     Smell & Taste Disorders - AAO-HNS (US)
     Smell & Taste Disorders - Merck Manual
     The Taste & Smell Center [AE Mott] including some comments about Loss of Smell - U. of Connecticut (US)
     About Anosmia [T Jacob] - Cardiff Univ. (UK)
     On Viral Damage, Nasal Sinus Disease, and Sudden Loss of Smell - Univ of Connecticut Health C. (US)
     Anosmia (Loss of Smell) Links Page [Dr. Wuensch]
     About Smell and Taste Disorders - NIDCD/NIH (US)
     On The Mystery of Smell - HHMI
     Flavornet [Acree and Arn] - Cornell (US)
     Olfaction & Odeur [in French] - Lyon Univ. (FR)
     Pheromones - Brain Briefings, Jul '99
     The Science of Love - The Why Files

    Synesthesia (not on MeSH)
     The American Synesthesia Association
     About Synesthesia [RE Cytowic; 1995]
     Synaesthesia [Booth et al.] - Macalester College, MN (US)
     Synaesthesia Research - Univ of Sussex (UK)
     Everyday fantasia: The world of synesthesia [S Carpenter] - Monitor in Psychology, Mar 2001
     On Synesthesia - Mixed Signals
     About the STROOP task - Enviromental Psych Lab, Univ of Michigan (US)

     Taste Disorders   
     Taste - a brief tutorial [T Jacob] - Cardiff Univ. (UK)
     Molecular Basis of Taste - Access Excellence
     Smell & Taste Disorders - AAO-HNS (US)
     Smell & Taste Disorders - Merck Manual, Home Ed.
     The Taste & Smell Center [AE Mott] - U. of Connecticut (US)
     About Taste Disorders - NIDCD/NIH (US)
     See also under Nose Diseases [links]


    Vertigo   
    On Vertigo and Dizziness
    Schwindel - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie
    Vertigo: Its Causes and Treatments [HY Chens] - Cyberrounds
    Management of Positional Vertigo [D Eibling] - COOL
    Benign Positional Vertigo - e-Medicine, and an illustration - Mayo Clinic Health
    Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and Bilateral Vestibulopathy and Ototoxicity [TC Hain] - NorthWestern Univ (US)
    About the Dix-Hallpike Test [TC Hain] - NorthWestern Univ (US)
    A randomized controlled trial of the Canalith Repositioning Procedure [Froehling et al.], 2000, and an illustration - Mayo Clinic Health
    Vertigo Tinnitus , including a Video of the MVD procedure - Univ of Pittsburgh (US)

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