Essential Health Links: Mental Health and Psychiatry


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10/66 Dementia Research Group<
Diseases and Disorders: Links pertaining to Mental Disorders
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Project Atlas: Resources for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Mental Health
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Psychiatry
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Diagnosis or Conditions (glossary)
WHO: Mental Health
World Federation for Mental Health

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10/66 Dementia Research Group  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The 10/66 Dementia Research Group focuses on dementia research in developing countries. Less than one tenth of all population-based research into dementia has been directed towards the two-thirds or more of all people with dementia who live in the developing world. Hence '10/66' The Group. The site contains summaries of the current research projects. The Group is part of Alzheimer's Disease International and is supported by the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, UK. http://www.alz.co.uk/1066/

Diseases and Disorders: Links pertaining to Mental Disorders
The gateway contains an extensive list of links to mental health and psychiatry sites and full-text resources. It is organized by broad subject heading with one sentence annotations. While the emphasis is on fulltext information from industrialized countries, many of the links have useful clinical information for the broader environment. It is maintained by the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/F03.html

Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This organization has spent 25 years caring for the health and mental needs of survivors of mass violence and torture through a combined practice of clinical experience and medical research. The site contains information about the program, its projects, research and clinical methodology. The organization is based at the Harvard University, School of Public Health, U.S. http://hprt-cambridge.org/

Project Atlas: Resources for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site is an analysis of the global and regional mental health data presented in the WHO publications, Atlas: Mental Health Resources in the World, Atlas: Country Profiles on Mental Health Resources and other mental health resources in each country. (The term 'resources' refers to country data - the site does not include full-text information materials.) It sorts information by world, regional and country maps, tables and charts. The site is maintained by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence, World Health Organization. http://www.cvdinfobase.ca/mh-atlas/

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Mental Health (6800+)
This PubMed search will identify all mental health related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly.  Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22mental%20health%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20mental%20health%5BText%20Word%5D%29

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Psychiatry (4900+)
This PubMed search will identify all psychiatry related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22psychiatry%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20psychiatry%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Royal College of Psychiatrists
This site contains fulltext information about mental health conditions, including patient education. The site is intended for health professionals and the general public in the UK, but much of the information is potentially useful worldwide. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk

Royal College of Psychiatrists: Diagnosis or Conditions (glossary)
This site is a glossary of mental health terms. It is divided alphabetically into three categories: psychiatric professionals, diagnosis or conditions, and types of therapies and treatments. It contains a keyword search engine and is maintained by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinformation/definitions/diagnosesorconditions.aspx

WHO: Mental Health   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish) 
This is the site of the World Health Organization's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. The Department aims to reduce the burden of mental disorders worldwide, and promote mental health. The site includes links to the following full-text publications with practical healthcare information: Investing in Mental Health; Mental Health for Refugees, also in French and Spanish from the same link; Epilepsy, a manual for health workers in Africa; Preventing suicide, a resource for primary health care workers, also in French and Estonian from the same link; Essential Treatment in Psychiatry; Essential Drugs in Psychiatry; and Mental Disorders in Primary Care. All these documents are PDF format and some are very large and may take a long time to download over a standard internet connection. http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/

World Federation for Mental Health ( (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is the site of the World Federation for Mental Health, a non-profit organization working to protect the human rights of those defined as mentally ill by identifying and addressing mental health issues. It contains information about the Federation, its programs and conferences and meetings. http://www.wfmh.com/

The Mental Health and Psychiatry page of Essential Health Links is advised by Vikram Patel, Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.

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Updated: 24 January 2008