Links of Interest

ISGC Twitter

• https://twitter.com/StrokeGenetics/ 

Cerebrovascular Disease Knowledge Portal (CDKP)

• http://www.cerebrovascularportal.org/ 

CCS-genetics website

• https://ccs.mgh.harvard.edu/strokegenetics/main.php

General Stroke Links

• British Heart Foundation (BHF) www.bhf.org.uk

• The Stroke Association www.stroke.org.uk

• National Stroke Association www.stroke.org

ISGC Global Alliance for Acute and Long Term Outcome Studies Coordinating Committee

• https://genestroke.wixsite.com/alliesinstroke

Stroke Research Links

Spanish Stroke Consortium www.genestroke.com

NINDS SIGN Study http://strokegenetics.som.umaryland.edu/stroke/

 

Genetic and Genomic Tools

• OMIM (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=OMIM&itool=toolbar)
• dbSNP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/)
• UCSD Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/)
• Best Links (UCSD Genome)(http://genome.ucsc.edu/bestlinks.html)
• Ensemble (http://www.ensembl.org/index.html)
• HapMap (http://www.hapmap.org/)
• Haploview (http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/haploview/)
• Tagger (http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/tagger/)
• PLINK (http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/)
• PHASE (http://stephenslab.uchicago.edu/software.html)

 

Neuroimaging Tools

• MRIcro (http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricro.html)
• 3D Slicer (http://www.slicer.org/)
• Visualisation Software (including Alice)
• (http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/ad828/visguide.html)

 

Clinical Evaluation Tools

• Stroke Scales and Clinical Assessment Tools (http://64.37.123.165/trials/scales/index.htm)
• SSS-TOAST (CCS) http://ccs.martinos.org/index.shtml

 

Prehospital Stroke Assessment Tools

• Cincinnati Stroke Scale
• Los Angeles Prehospital Stroke Screen (LAPSS)

 

Acute Assessment Scales

• Canadian Neurological Scale (CNS)
• European Stroke Scale
• Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
• Hemispheric Stroke Scale
• Hunt & Hess Scale
• Mathew Stroke Scale
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• Orgogozo Stroke Scale
• Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project Classification (Bamford)
• Scandinavian Stroke Scale
• World Federation of Neurological Surgeons Grading System for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Scale

 

Functional Assessment

• Berg Balance Scale
• Lawton IADL Scale
• Modified Rankin Scale
• Stroke Impact Scale (SIS)
• Stroke Specific Quality of Life Measure (SS-QOL)

 

Outcome Assessment

• American Heart Association Stroke Outcome Classification (AHA SOC)
• Barthel Index
• Functional Independence Measurement (FIM™)
• Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS)
• Health Survey SF-36™ & SF-12™
• Community Integration Questionnaire

 

Other Diagnostic & Screening Tests

• Action Research Arm Test
• Blessed-Dementia Scale
• Blessed-Dementia Information-Memory-Concentration Test
• DSM-IV criteria for the diagnosis of vascular dementia
• Hachinkski Ischaemia Score
• Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
• NINDS - AIREN criteria for the diagnosis of vascular dementia
• Orpington Prognostic Score
• Short Orientation-Memory-Concentration Test