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Clinical Neurological Sciences

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Articles

  • Alternative interface: MEDLINE - Ovid
    Alternative interface for getting fulltext PDFs: Pubget

  • The Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE) provides access to information on medical and drug-related subjects. It contains citations and abstracts from over 5000 biomedical journals from 70 countries.
  • Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work.
  • The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases - including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and others - that contain high-quality information regarding the effects of various interventions in health care.  Link to the Wiley Online Library here.

  • Scopus is an abstracts database covering articles from peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and General Sciences.
  • BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model.  All original research articles published by BioMed Central are freely and permanently acessible online imediately upon publication.  BioMed Central's portfolio includes over 200 peer reviewed journals.

Clinical Tools

  • DynaMed is an evidence-based, clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care.' DynaMed contains AHFS drug information, article references, medical calculators, patient information, and thousands of topics organized into clinical summaries. Content in DynaMed is updated daily. 

    In order to obtain or renew a Dynamed Mobile serial number either send an email to dynamedsupport@ebscohost.com  or phone 1-800-758-5995. Please include or have available your full name, the name of institution, and the type of device you are using. You must provide a valid Western email address, ie. one that ends with @uwo.ca in order to receive a serial number. The serial number will be emailed to the @uwo.ca address you provide.  .


  • The American College of Physicians' Physicians' Information and Education Resource offers a Web-based evidence-based clinical guidance designed for rapid access to clinical information at the point of care by physicians and other health care providers.
  • Micromedex is unavailable through Western Libraries as free access is no longer being provided to educational institutions. We are investigating subscription options for this product. We apologize for the inconvenience and recommend the use of DynaMed, UpToDate or e-CPS for finding clinical or drug information.
  • Essential Evidence Plus is a tool that makes it possible to search a number of medical information resources and decision support calculators simultaneously. The resources include the Cochrane database of systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, patient education handouts and summaries - called POEMs (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters) - on various medical topics. Western libraries' subscription to this resource includes a free download of the PDA version. Instructions for downloading the PDA version are available here and the Installation instructions page is available here.                              POEM of the Week Podcast
  • Produced by the Canadian Pharmacists Association, the online Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (e-CPS) provides health care professionals with web access to the most current Canadian drug information.
  • UpToDate is an information resource for health professionals designed to answer clinical questions by summarizing published evidence and making specific recommendations for patient care.
  • The TRIP Database is free unified search tool of evidence-based sites such as ACP Journal Club, Bandolier, Cochrane, DARE, Health Technology Assessment, and the National Guideline Clearing House. TRIP is produced by the Centre for Research Support in the UK.

E-books

  • This heavily revised new edition provides complete coverage of the nervous system including anatomic and physiologic presentation of disorders, recommended examination procedures, neurodiagnostic and laboratory testing, diagnostic reasoning, and neurologic differential diagnosis guidelines.  ELECTRONIC VERSION AVAILABLE
  • This classic work is the most comprehensive reference on diagnosis and treatment of neuro-ophthalmologic diseases. Coverage includes major updates on genetics of diseases, new diagnostic techniques, and the newest treatment options.  ELECTRONIC VERSION AVAILABLE
  • The definitive text on the full spectrum of neurology, Adams and Victor's provides the treatment and management strategies needed to confidently handle both common and rare neurologic conditions. ELECTRONIC VERSION AVAILABLE
  • An international group of experts provides comprehensive coverage of the neurophysiologic and technical aspects of EEG, evoked potentials, and magnetoencephalography, as well as the clinical applications of these studies in neonates, infants, children, adults, and older adults.  ELECTRONIC VERSION AVAILABLE

Multimedia

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  • University of Iowa’s gallery of medical pictures and their directory of medical image pages on the web.
  • The Public Health Image Library (PHIL) is a collection of photographs, illustrations, and multimedia files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  The PHIL contains a very good collection of microscopic images related to infectious disease.
  • Contains images of sections of a normal human brain as well as brains affected by cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative, and inflammatory or infectious diseases.
  • This site provides access to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures performed in various medical centres in the United States. The videos last for an hour. You need RealPlayer (http://www.real.com) installed on your computer to be able to play the videos.