Web Links to Information About Aging and Strokes

 

General interest sites

 

The National Stroke Association

http://www.stroke.org/

 

American Stroke Association: A Division of the American Heart Association

http://www.strokeassociation.org/

 

An atlas of the brain put together by scientists at Harvard Medical School, featuring MRI and CT scans and movies.

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

 

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/

 

National Aphasia Association, focusing on speech deficits after stroke

http://www.aphasia.org/

 

Brain Aneurysm Foundation

http://www.bafound.org/

 

Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stroke/DS00150

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention―Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/cvh

 

Brain Attack Coalition

http://www.stroke-site.org/

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/

 

Sites of professional interest

 

Medscape offers abstracts, articles and references.

http://www.medscape.com/

 

Professional page for the National Stroke Organization

http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=memberships

 

Home page of the journal Stroke

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/

 

The Internet Stroke Center of Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis

http://www.strokecenter.org/
 

General Sites on Aging Research

 

National Institute on Aging

 

Alliance for Aging Research

 

The Aging Research Centre

 

Administration on Aging

 

The Science of Aging Knowledge Environment

 

Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Program

 

 

General Sites on Aging

 

National Council on Aging

 

American Society on Aging

 

The Gerontological Society of America

 

American Geriatrics Society

 

The Foundation for Health in Aging

 

Health and Age Centers