Brain Conditions

UK sources of information and / or support

 Patient UK

• Information leaflets on a number of brain disorders
• A directory of patient support and self help groups - see the neurology section which is divided up into several categories. Many of the groups listed provide information about brain disorders on their website.
• Web directory pages for brain tumours, brain damage, and for individual brain disorders such as parkinsons disease, stroke etc.

Some general sites which provide a range of information on various brain conditions

 British Brain and Spine Foundation

Includes information on many conditions of the brain and spinal cord.

 Robert Bradford MD FRCS

Personal site of London-based consultant neurosurgeon. Contains some detailed information about anatomy of the brain and central nervous system, conditions which affect it (including brain tumours) and treatment options for these.

 Brain abscess

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Labyrinthitis

Information from BUPA.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.