Other Information of Neurosurgical Interest
Neurosurgical Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Other Clinical Resources at the Massachusetts General Hospital

• Neurosurgery Research at MGH
• MGH HomePage
• MGH Neurology
• MGH Emergency Medicine
• MGH Psychiatry
• Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research
• MGH Gopher Server
• Treadwell Library Homepage
• Direct Connect to MGH Treadwell Library's Online Card Catalog
• MGH Physician Referral Service
• Maps of Boston and the MGH

Other Resources at Harvard

• Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard Medical School)
• Harvard Medical School's Program in Neuroscience On the Brain Newsletter
• Harvard University WWW Home Page
• More WWW Resources at Harvard
• Harvard University Home Gopher
• Harvard Medical Web including Countway Library
• HOLLIS Plus (Library resources gopher at Harvard and beyond)
• VINE (Harvard Campus-wide Information System)
• Harvard University Telephone and Mail Directory (from FAS)
• HMS Whitepages Telephone and Mail Directory

Web Sitesearching

See the MGH/Harvard Neurosurgery Web Sitesearching Page.

Other Neuroscience/Neurology Resource Indexes

• University of Aberdeen Neurosurgical WWW Sites Index
• WWW Virtual Library: Neurobiology (Cornell Medical)
• Neurosciences on the Internet (from Dr. Busis, highly recommended)
• CMUs Other Internet Neuroscience Resources
• Neurology (Medical Specialties) galaxy.einet.net
• Yahoo's:Health:Medicine:Neurosciences
• Emory's MedWeb Neurology (recommended)
• MIC-KIBIC at the Karolinska Institute: Nervous System Diseases (recommended)
• Medical Matrix Neurology Resource List
• Medical Matrix Neurosurgery Resource List
• Neurosource (recommended)
• Neurosurgery from Medmark

Other Neurosurgical Resources

• Internet Neurosurgical Education Resources
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) / Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Neurosurgery On-Call
• UNC Division of Neurological Surgery
• Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgery
• Neurological Disease FAQs (Frequently asked questions)
• Stroke Prevention Information
• Tufts Neurosurgery Homepage
• Vanderbilt Neurosurgery
• NYU Neurological Surgery
• USC Neurosurgery (Including the neurosurgery answer line .)
• UCLA Neurosurgery
• Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery
• Cerebrovascular Center of the Neurological Institute
• University of Illinois (Chicago) Neurosurgery
• Yamagata University Department of Surgical Neurology
• Other Neurosurgery sites in Japan
• Yale Section of Neurological Surgery
• University of Washington Department of Neurological Surgery
• University of New Mexico Neurosurgery
• Medical College of Ohio Neurosurgery
• Thomas Jefferson University Neurosensory Institute Philadelphia
• University of Western Ontario Neurosurgery
• University of Toronto Division of Neurosurgery
• University of Missouri-Columbia Division of Neurological Surgery
• University of Michigan Neurosurgery Section
• UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery
• University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery
• Brain Research Institute, Niigata Japan Department of Neurosurgery
• Fukushima Medical School Department of Neurosurgery, Japan
• Georgetown University Department of Neurosurgery
• Brain Surgery .COM
• Neurosurgeon. COM from Michael Lusk, M.D.
• Spine Surgery .COM
• University of Iowa Division of Neurosurgery
• SUNY-HSC Department of Neurosurgery, Syracuse, New York
• Neurochirurgisch Centrum Zwolle
• Northwestern Neurosurgery

  Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System at Northwestern

• Neurological Surgery Dept. Wayne State University
• Dalhousie University Neurosurgery Division
• Singapore General Hospital Brain Centre Department of Neurosurgery

  ASSFCN (Asian Society For Stereotactic, Functional And Computer-assisted Neurosurgery)

• Boston Childrens'/Brigham & Women's Division of Neurosurgery
• Cornell University Medical College Division of Neurosurgery
• Washington University in St. Louis Neurosurgery
• Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch
• Louisiana State UniversityNeurosurgery
• University of Minnesota Department of Neurosurgery
• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Division of Neurosurgery, Denver, Colorado
• Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest University) Department of Neurosurgery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Mount Sinai Department of Neurosurgery, NYC
• Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital Program in Neurosurgery
• University of Maryland Division of Neurological Surgery
• Boston University Neurosurgery
• William Lu M.D., Neurosurgery Information Page Orlando, Florida
• NeuroNet Europe
• University of Chicago Section of Neurosurgery
• Journal of Image Guided Surgery
• TransWeb - Organ Transplantation and Donation
• Please, add to this list via the MGH Neurosurgery Guestbook

Other Neuroscience/Neurology Resources

• Neurological Information and Publications from NINDS Office of Scientific and Health Reports
• American Association for Neurology
• Usenet Newsgroup: alt.support.disorders.neurological
• American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
• Society for Neuroscience (gopher)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Gopher
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Cognitive Neuroscience Virtual Library (Brown)
• Human Brain Project
• Alberta Neurology -- The Synapse Project
• Penn Neurology WWW server home page
• University of Virginia Department of Neurological Science (includes the Neurosurgical Visualization Homepage)
• Montreal Neurological Institute
• Cure Paralysis Home Page
• Society for Neuroanesthesiology and Critical Care (gopher)
• Neuroanesthesiology Manual (NYU)
• Alzheimer Web Home Page (Australia)
• U Wash Alzheimer's research
• Neurosciences at the UW
• Neurotrophin homepage
• Computer Vision Center for Vertebrate Brain Mapping

Other General Information Sources

• NIH Home Page
• National Science Foundation
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
• National Library of Medicine (USA)
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Archie ftp file search gateway (NASA)
• Veronica gopher searches (Harvard)
• WWW Search engines metaindex

Other General Medical Sites

• WWW Virtual Library: Medicine (Harvard)
• Hospital Web (maintained by MGH Neuro-medicine's own John Lester)
• MedWeb (Emory)
• MIC-KIBIC at the Karolinska Institute :
  • Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
• Disease Homepages (galaxy.einet.net)
• Yahoo's: Diseases and Conditions
• Pharmaceutical Information Network: Drug Database
• MEDIC (UTexas)
• The Virtual Hospital (UIowa)
• NCI CancerNet Database - Main Index
• National Health Information Center (US PHS)
  • Listing of organizations providing educational materials
• Instructions to Authors for numerous medical journals. From Medical College of Ohio.

Other resources for patients and families related to neurosurgical diseases

• Acoustic neuroma resources
• Brain AVM and aneurysm information and support group (Brain Aneurysm Foundation)
• Back and neck injury information and support resources
• Brain tumor information sources
• Carotid disease
• Craniofacial anomalies
• Craniosynostosis
• Disability Links
• Epilepsy information sources
• Herniated disc (disk)
• Hydrocephalus resources
• Hypoglossal neuralgia
• Hemifacial spasm (tic convulsif)
• Meningiomas, Epidermoids, and other Bengn Brain Tumors
• Neurofibromatosis (Von Recklinghausen's disease or NF-I and bilateral acoustic neuromatosis or NF-2 )
• Nerve entrapment (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome) information and support resources
• Parkinson's disease information resources
• Paralysis/spinal cord injury
• Patient Advocacy Groups Help Line - toll free telephone numbers (from Johns Hopkins)
• Pediatric neurosurgery
• Pituitary tumor (adenoma, carcinoma) information. Including acromegaly, Cushing's disease, and prolactinoma.
• Repetitive stress injury resources
• Sciatica
• Spina bifida resources
• Spinal Disorders Information
• Stroke (prevention)
• Traumatic brain injury
• Trigeminal neuralgia (tic doloureux)
• Tuberous sclerosis resources
• Von Hippel-Lindau disease resources

Listings of Organizations providing Support and Education

• Brain tumors and other diseases with an increased incidence of brain or spine tumors
• Cerebello-pontine angle lesions (e.g. acoustic neuromas)
• Epilepsy
• Hydrocephalus and allied disorders
• Parkinson's Disease

Internet Sites that offer to answer neurosurgical questions

• The NeuroWebforum from MGH Neurology: http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/neurowebforum/neurowebforum.html

• The MedHelp International Neurology Forum
  http://www.medhelp.org/cgi/neuro/webpost.exe

• The American Association of Neurological Surgeons Neurosurgery://On-Call, "Ask a Neurosurgeon" http://www.neurosurgery.org/pubpages/patres/askaneuro.html

• The USC Neurosurgical Information Resource:
  http://www.usc.edu/hsc/neurosurgery/inquiries.html

• The NYU Neurosurgery Electronic Consultation Service: http://mcns10.med.nyu.edu/consult/Neuroconsult.html

• The Beth Israel Hospital Pediatric Neurosurgery Forum
  mail:rabbott@bethisraelny.org

• The Usenet Newsgroup
  news:alt.support.disorders.neurological

• Dr. Mangiardi (www.brain-surgery.com) email at
  mailto:JRMBRAIN@AOL.COM

• Spine-Surgery.Com
  http://www.spine-surgery.com/