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- Amazon.com - Items of interest include Inside the Halo and Beyond: the Anatomy of a Recovery by Maxine Kumin and Still Me by Christopher Reeve (also available in a paperback, large type edition and on audio tape).
- American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA)
- BMJ [British Medical Journal] - You can search archive. See Lynn Eaton's interview with Christopher Reeve, Man and Superman, BMJ, Vol 326, 14 June 2003, p. 1287-1290.
- Bobby - "Easy to use program that will help you make web pages accessible to those with disabilities. It will also find HTML compatibility problems that prevent pages from displaying correctly on different web browsers."
- Brain Signals Shown to Move a Robot's Arm - Sandra Blakeslee, New York Times, November 16, 2000. (Free registration.)
- Breathing Lessons - "Documentary by award-winning film maker Jessica Yu, explores the unique world of Mark O'Brien, the poet-journalist who has lived for four decades paralyzed in an iron lung"
- Canadian Paraplegic Association
- Canadian Spinal Research Organization
- Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center
- Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation - Comprehensive site which includes information about current research to find a cure for paralysis.
- Craig Hospital - Englewood, Colorado hospital "exclusively dedicated to the specialty rehabilitation and research for patients with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. Craig has treated more than 24,000 patients since 1956 - more spinal cord injury patients than any other single facility in the world."
- Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
- EurakAlert! - News for science, medicine and technology.
- Free Medical Journals - Free full-text journals
- Health on the Net Foundation - Non-profit organization, "dedicated to realizing the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare", intended to aid professionals and patients that are seeking reliable medical advice and information. Site highlights include MedHunt, a medical document finder, which will also locate hospitals, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), a hierarchical structure of medical concepts. Try using MeSH to search for articles on spinal cord injuries.Select Diseases - Injuries - Wounds and Injuries - Spinal Cord Injuries OR Spinal Injuries. Note the box at the bottom: MedHunt will search for web sites on the subject, and Medline/PubMed will search for articles (locating over 1,000 citations).
- HighWire
- Ingenta
- Interview with Actor Christopher Reeve - Library of Congress, October 26, 1999. Parade magazine Editor Walter Anderson interviews Actor Chrisopher Reeve as part of a series of interviews known as "It's About Time."
- Karolinksa Institutet - Stocklholm, Sweden. With a Department of Neuroscience. A search in the Dissertation Database for spinal cord injuries retrieved over 700 results, including one by Johan Widenfalk published on September 22, 2000.
- Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange, New Jersey
- MEDLINEplus - National Library of Medicine. Information on Spinal Cord Injuries and Spinal Cord Diseases.
- Merck Manual - Has chapters on Spinal Cord Disorders and Infections of the Brain and Spinal Cord. Illustrations include How the Spine is Organized, Muscle-Brain Curcuit, Which Area of the Spinal Column is Damaged?
- Miami Project to Cure Paralysis - University of Miami School of Medicine
- National Council on Disability - An independent federal agency making recommendations on disability issues to the President and Congress.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - National Institutes of Health
- National Rehabilitation Information Center - "Library and information center on disability and rehabilitation."
- National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
- National Spinal Cord Injury Association
- National Spinal Cord Injury Hotline - Call 1-800-526-3456 or (410) 448-6623 between the hours of 9am and 5pm, EST.
- Nature News Service - Articles of interest include Spinal injuries: In search of a miracle by Helen Pearson, 16 May 2003, Spinal cord recovery hurdle cleared by Helen Pearson, 11 April 2002, Human cells patch up rat spinal cord by Corie Lok, 23 February 2001, Climax generator found by Kendall Powell, 30 August 2002,
- Neuroscience for Kids - Eric H. Chudler's site has a section entitled Explore the Brain and Spinal Cord
- Neurosciences on the Internet - M.D. Neil A. Busis maintains this site, 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.
- New Mobility
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health - In the Neurological and Neuromuscular Disorders category there are sections for Spinal Cord Injuries and Disorders and for Head Injuries.
- Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System - Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Allows you to Search from 1990 to the present. Abstracts and PDF files are available from 1990 to present. Full text is available and searchable from 1996 on. Try searching for the following article: Severed corticospinal axons recover electrophysiologic control of muscle activity after x-ray therapy in lesioned adult spinal cord an article by Nurit Kalderon and Zvi Fuks, Volume 93, Number 20; Pages: 11185-11190. (A search for "spinal cord injuries" retrieved over 1,000 items.)
- PubMed - National Library of Medicine database. Search for abstracts of articles by the following researchers: Anton Wernig, V. R. Edgerton, John McDonald, Wise Young, Hans Keirstead, Michal Schwartz, Hongyun Huang, Almudena Ramon-Cueto. See PubMed Help. A search for methylprednisolone "spinal cord injuries" locates over 300 article abstracts. Try a search for spinal cord injuries combined with any of the following glial cells, glial-cell implantation, proprioception, physical therapy techniques, locomotion, walking, electrical stimulation, treatment outcome, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, recovery of function, rehabilitation, activity-based recovery, repetitive activity, patterned neural activity, and patterned activity therapy. You can also browse abstracts of recent articles in the following journals
- Pulsar Project - Syracuse University project's goal is to develop computer interfaces for the disabled. At the Center for Really Neat Research, founder David J. Warner and associates are developing software and other devices to help severely disabled children to interact with computers.
- Reeve-Irvine Research Center - University of California, Irvine
- Science Magazine
- ScienceDaily Magazine - A query for spinal cord injuries on this searchable site retrieves over 600 results.
- Science News - This searchable site has an online archives.
- Scientific American - Search for articles. Spinal Cord Repair: Transplanted cells come to the aid of paralysis victims, By Rebecca Zacks, August 18, 1997.
- Society for Neuroscience
- Spinal Cord Injury Program - Washington University School of Medicine
- Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center
- Spinal Cord Injury Resources - "Maintained by Jim Lubin, who is a C2 quadriplegic, completely paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe."
- Spinal Cord Injury Information Network - Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Spinal Cord Research Centre - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Spinal Cord Society - "International organization for cure research & treatment of spinal cord injury paralysis & related problems"
- Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery - Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- TIRR Systems - The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Texas Medical Center, Houston
- W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and the Spinal Cord Injury Project - Rutgers University
- Wheelweb - Spinal cord injury resource
- Why Files: Superman - Clear presentations of several research projects in which "scientists are learning how to help the central nervous system repair itself."
Links updated 15 January 2005