Resource Links
Mental Health
General
- The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (The journal of the American Neuropsychiatric Association). As with many journals, SIU has access to full text of articles: http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/
- From the US Surgeon General - the current (1999) national report on Mental Health. Includes material on neuroscience. Downloadable in PDF form: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/home.html
- A non-profit group that organizes mental health screenings and concentrates on public education: http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/
- Mental Health Sanctuary - this site has been around for about 8 years. It provides email support, information, newsletters, blogs from users, a variety of assessment tools and many other things about the most common mental disorders. Took me a while to figure out what was disconcerting about their logo. Hint: watch the globe: http://www.mhsanctuary.com/index.html
- Another general page from the "about" family (one of many): http://mentalhealth.about.com/
- Behavior OnLine. This page has been around for a while and some folks find it erratic but some folks love it. The discussion forums are interesting: http://www.behavior.net/
- American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org
- American Psychiatric Association: http://www.psych.org
- Psychology Information Online (which says repeatedly that it is privately owned and "not endorsed by, or affiliated with, any state or national psychological association or any state licensing board"): http://www.psychologyinfo.com/
- Within a broad neuroscience page, links to a number of pages on psychology and psychiatry: http://www.neuroguide.com/neuroresac_3_psychology.html#psychology
- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/OBSSR10th/
Psychoses, e.g., Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is complicated and fascinating. If you type "schizophrenia" into a search engine you will get well over 1,000,000 hits. Many will have helpful information so here are a few starting points.
- An extensive page with some amazing chat rooms and blogs: http://www.schizophrenia.com/
- If that is the standard page, here is the anti-thesis. It is a deeply anti-psychiatry and frequently anti-medicine page. Approach its conclusions with a scientific and skeptical mind - and be aware that a lot of patients are reading this page. Has some interesting links: http://www.successfulschizophrenia.com/welcome.shtml
- Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses - I have not explored this page thoroughly but the pieces I have read look helpful. It is sponsored by the London ( Ontario ) Health Sciences Centre: http://www.pepp.ca/index.html
Grief and Mood Disorders, e.g., Depression
- Depression screening - an interesting page that provides some basic questionnaires: http://www.depression-screening.org/
- The page is sponsored by the National Mental Health Association (not to be confused with the federal agency on Mental Health that has its own interesting and helpful web page): http://www.nmha.org/
- And this IS the federal agency on Mental Health, NIMH. As with some other government pages, it might take you a while to find what you want, but this is well-organized and very current. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/nimhhome/index.cfm
- Other pages abound, some with a medical basis, some written mostly by patients. Again, read them with a skeptical eye: http://depression.about.com/
- another one: http://www.mcmanweb.com/
- The MacArthur Initiative on Depression and Primary Care: "The mission of the Initiative on Depression and Primary Care is to enhance the ability of primary care clinicians to recognize and manage depression." From screening tools to web links to a downloadable depression "tool kit", an impressive page for physicians, patients and even employers: http://www.depression-primarycare.org/
- A very unusual page on suicide, from somebody who has been fighting it off. A student told me this was one of the scariest things they had ever read: http://www.suicide.com/
- and another one - the first 15 minutes of reading this opening page may give you a perspective unlike any you have ever had: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide
- A different sort of page - a Depression Bookstore - written by patients and set up in cooperation with amazon.com, there are links to articles and blogs on depression and suicide and, as the name promises, books on depression through the Amazon web page: http://depressionbookstore.com/
- Grief, which may or may not lead to clinical depression, is a special process. As with other common topics, thousands of pages exist on the web. This is just one example: http://www.grieflossrecovery.com/
- From the APA (American Psychological Association), a white paper on the inequities of health insurance coverage for mental illness: http://www.apa.org/practice/paper/homepage.html
- If a patient ever comes to you grieving or depressed about the loss of a pet, and you do not understand why, go to a " Rainbow Bridge " page and do some reading. http://www.petloss.com/ or http://rainbowsbridge.com/ or http://www.rainbowbridge.org/
Use, Abuse and Addictions (Dependencies)
- Alcoholics Anonymous: http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/
- Narcotics Anonymous: http://www.na.org/
- Nicotine Anonymous: http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/
- Overeaters Anonymous: http://www.overeatersanonymous.org/
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.drugabuse.gov
- American Society of Addiction Medicine: http://www.asam.org
- US Dept of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (PODCAST): http://www.health.org/
- SIU's Tobacco and Drugs Information Page - many links to good sites: http://www.siu.edu/departments/bushea/smoke.html
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
- When is a drink a drink? http://www.standarddrinks.com
- Alcohol Problems and Solutions. From SUNY Potsdam. http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/
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