APA practice guidelines are intended to assist psychiatrists in clinical decision-making and to improve patient care. They also document evidence available to determine appropriate care. A practice guideline is not a “standard of care.” The ultimate judgment regarding a particular clinical procedure or treatment plan must be made by the psychiatrist in light of the clinical data presented by the patient and the diagnostic and treatment options available.
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Current Controlled Trials is run by an editorial and technical in-house team. It has the benefit of advice from an international Advisory Group, including academics, doctors and health care specialists of international renown. The Advisory Group provides valuable guidance on the current activities and possible new directions of Current Controlled Trials' two main projects, the metaRegister of Controlled Trials and the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) scheme.
The AAN’s more than 19,000 members look to the AAN for the most comprehensive professional development, career enhancement, and practice improvement opportunities available.
Founded in 1980, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Providing information about Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, important research findings and how it affects the lives of those who live with it everyday.
A non-profit professional association of pediatric neurologists in the United States, Canada, and worldwide devoted to fostering the discipline of child neurology and promoting the optimal care and welfare of children with neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders.
The Epilepsy Foundation is the national voluntary agency solely dedicated to the welfare of the 2.7 million people with epilepsy in the U.S. and their families.
Founded in 1948, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association is the nation's oldest and largest civilian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of Americans living with the results of spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) and their families.
The SFN site contains an extensive set of Brain Briefings (short informational papers on a variety of neurology-related topics) as well as Brain Backgrounders (answers to questions posed to SFN), legislative information related to neurology, and both current and back issues of the Neuroscience Newsletter (a very informative online publication).This organisation of scientists and physicians is dedicated to understanding the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system.
The European Neurological Society (ENS) was launched in 1986. The decision to found ENS was taken by Gerard Said, Anita Harding and P.K. Thomas. They decided to model the society after the pattern of the American Academy of Neurology and to include a strong teaching component, which very quickly became a prominent feature of the ENS.
A searchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet: Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human neurological diseases.
The Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation further seeks to empower pain sufferers and their caregivers with information to better equip them to work in partnership with their physician to actively manage their pain.
The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert.
The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) develops clinical practice guidelines to assist its members in clinical decision-making related to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of neurological disorders.
AGREE stands for "Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation". It originates from an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who work together to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and assessment.
APA practice guidelines are intended to assist psychiatrists in clinical decision-making and to improve patient care. They also document evidence available to determine appropriate care.
Stroke Guidelines are a comprehensive diagnostic tool. Guidelines are used to establish quickly whether or not a patient is experiencing an acute stroke, the stroke's range and severity, and most effective treatment.
The Guidelines International Network is an international not-for-profit association of organisations and individuals involved in clinical practice guidelines. Founded in November 2002, G-I-N has grown to 67 organisational members and partners representing 32 countries from North and South America, Asia, Europe and Oceania - plus WHO.
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health (for management of diseases within the National Health Service in England and Wales).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research provides information about new and generic drug approvals, FDA news alerts, regulatory legislation, and guidelines for new drug applications.
MedWatch is an FDA Web page that provides timely information about product safety alerts, recalls, withdrawals, and important labeling changes on the drugs and other medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
As an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH conducts research into preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and treating diseases and disabilities.
The mission of NINDS is to reduce the burden of neurological disease - a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world.
The mission of the National Center on Sleep Research (NCSDR) is to coordinate government-supported sleep research, training, and education, to improve the health of Americans.
NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life.
Conducting and supporting research in a wide range of scientific areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, health risks and benefits of alcohol consumption, prevention, and treatment
The goals of ORD are to stimulate and coordinate research on rare diseases and to support research to respond to the needs of patients who have any one of the more than 6,000 rare diseases known today.
Database providing a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored by the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Established by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD), the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center employs experienced information specialists to answer in English or Spanish questions from the general public, including patients and their families, health care professionals, and biomedical researchers.
The Genetic Alliance Web site has a searchable database of hundreds of disease support groups, representing more than a thousand diseases, with links to all of their Web sites. It also offers general genetic information.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) clinical alerts are provided to expedite the release of findings from NIH-funded clinical trials where such release could significantly affect morbidity and mortality.
Use this site to find a wealth of information about clinical research, including listings of more than 41,000 active industry and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA.
This FDA website provides information, contacts, guidelines, educational materials, and FDA-specific regulations relating to good clinical practice standards in clinical trials.
Site aiming to increase the availability, and promote the exchange, of information about ongoing randomised controlled trials including the NHS in England and US ClinicalTrials.gov.
Brain provides researchers and clinicians with the finest original contributions in neurology. Leading studies in neurological science are balanced with practical clinical articles.
In addition to primary research, Nature Neuroscience publishes news and views, reviews, editorials, commentaries, perspectives, book reviews and correspondence. In this way, the journal aims to be the voice of the worldwide neuroscience community.
Muscle & Nerve is an international and interdisciplinary publication of original contributions, in both health and disease, concerning studies of the muscle, the neuromuscular junction, the peripheral motor, sensory and autonomic neurons, and the central nervous system where the behavior of the peripheral nervous system is clarified.
Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology, publishes clinical and research articles about Neurology, neuroscience, and related fields.
