Question: List of helpful URLs
Answer: Information on Parkinson's disease through articles and videos, focusing on symptoms, treatment and general information.
http://rewiredforlife.healthology.com/focus_index.asp?f=parkinsons_disease
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Parkinson's Disease Index
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
http://www.wfubmc.edu/surg-sci/ns/pd.html
WE MOVE Web Site: resource for movement disorders research
http://www.wemove.org/
This site is devoted to helping people diagnosed with signs and symptoms of Dystonia regardless of cause or etiology.
http://www.care4dystonia.org/
The Parkinson Archive Treasures
An international email list and website about Parkinson's. Membership is required.
http://www.parkinsons-information-exchange-network-online.com/archive/patp.html
This group is for the discussion of deep brain stimulation surgical procedures. Membership is required.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DBSsurgery
National Library of Medicine's PubMed provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations and life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Brain Talk communities' neurology support groups
http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
Ask the Surgeon - Jaimie Henderson, M. D., neuro-surgeon from Cleveland Clinic answering questions about DBS.
http://www.parkinson.org/asksurgeon.htm Registration is required
An interesting and informative site on PD on the webmd.com site. http://my.webmd.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_40066
Neurologic Institute of Colorado
http://www.megapathdsl.net/~coloradone/FLASH/download.htm
DBS info on hardware and surgery
http://www.medtronic.com/neuro/parkinsons/activa_qa.html
sites to check for your meds:
http://img.intelihealth.com/
http://www.rxlist.com/
This website lists new medicines currently in clinical trials. Information on medicines for specific diseases (there are several listed for pd) are downloaded in acrobat.
http://www.phrma.org/charts/neurochart99.html
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