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Medical Journals American Journal of Forensic Medicine http://www.amjforensicmedicine.com/ or http://www.amjforensicmedicine.com/pt/re/ajfmp/home.htm;jsessionid=Gd3C4vnKj1H7hHxMWhfZ3QdJxCLwMF1l1m8jCTZH9PpvCBqLbPQg!-933386751!181195628!8091!-1 Jeff Flax’s Medical Resource Page. Giant resource to a lot of medical, psych., drugs and online journals. http://www.jflax.com/med.htm or http://www.jflax.com/ Medical Journals Online This is the largest index of online journals which contains medical, legal, psychology, social sciences, etc. http://genamics.com/journals/index.htm MEDLINE: PubMed Free MEDLINE database of more than 9 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals may be accessed free of charge on the World Wide Web. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed New England Journal of Medicine online index. http://content.nejm.org/ Public Health Statistics In addition to statistics regarding various public health issues, http://www.state.ma.us/dph/pubstats.htm Medical Resources Common Medical Abbreviations AND Terms Useful in reading a medical record http://www.globalrph.com/abbrev.htm OR http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp Gray’s Anatomy online: OK – so you don’t know what a sphenoid sinus is. Now you do! http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Hospital Locator This lists every hospital in Massachusetts and then when you go the home page every hospital in the USA. http://www.mhalink.org/public/mahospitals/ or http://www.massmedboard.org/links/hospital_list.shtm PDR Online http://www.pdrhealth.com/ US National Library of Medicine Site. It is linked to many definitional and informational databases: Internet Medline. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Medical: Locating Doctors and Nurses Credential Check You can use this to locate and double check the credentials of your opposing expert. Also lists publications and educational experience. Massachusetts: http://profiles.massmedboard.org/MA-Physician-Profile-Find-Doctor.asp Nationwide: http://www.docboard.org/ma/df/masearch.htm Doctors: Discipline This site allows you to search to locate a particular MD and/or find out if that MD has had any disciplinary action taken against him or her. It gets its information from the AMA. Am. Board of Specialties, Department of Health and Human Services and medical boards in each of the 50 states. http://www.searchpointe.com/ Hospital Locator This lists every hospital in Massachusetts and then when you go the home page every hospital in the USA. http://www.mhalink.org/public/mahospitals/ or http://www.massmedboard.org/links/hospital_list.shtm Nurses You can locate nurses through this licensing board. http://www.state.ma.us/reg/boards/rn/ or http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2subtopic&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Provider&L2=Certification%2c+Licensure%2c+and+Registration&L3=Occupational+and+Professional&L4=Nursing&sid=Eeohhs2 Need a Break? Other Cool Sites Art Bell UFO’s, Near Death Experiences? Conspiracies galore…! Spontaneous Human Combustion http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies. Journey from Jon Benet to Frank Sinatra and the Mob. http://crimemagazine.com/ CSI No kidding. It does have a pretty decent glossary with case files. Not too much music! http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi/ Dexter Showtime’s great show about a forensic criminalist who is a serial killer http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/popup.do?content=blood_spatter Drudge Report You never know what you can learn … http://www.drudgereport.com/ Famous Trials Salem Witch Trials and more OK, coming back to work after a three-day weekend may not be fun. But when you get a moment, check out this site, with original pleadings and transcripts from the Salem witch trials, the Leopold Loeb case, the My Lai massacre, the Chicago 7 and more... http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm Jerry Garcia’s autopsy…la, la, la. No disrespect intended! http://www.chickenhead.com/stuff/jerry/index.html and other topical presentations http://www.chickenhead.com/index.asp JFK Kennedy Assassination Home Page http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm Mayhem Unbelievable! Great sound effects, bullets, etc. http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/archives.html Virtual OZ Welcome to Virtual Oz! Hit the START button to get going. This is a pretty realistic vision of a maximum security facility. http://www.hbo.com/oz/# Six Feet Under Trivia Games http://www.hbo.com/sixfeetunder/community/downloads.shtml Spy Store This site must be doing well. It’s still here! Yes you can buy all kinds of fake ID’s and special spy toys. http://www.thespystore.com/ News and Magazine Links Online newspapers and TV stations in Massachusetts. http://www.kidon.com/media-link/us_ma.php or http://www.newspaperlinks.com/newspaperlist.cfm?sid=ma Online Papers In Mass http://www.newslink.org/manews.html or http://www.newsconnect.net/massachusetts.htm?gclid=CI_1zNONqo4CFQccHgodeBLMQg TV stations or http://www.masshome.com/tv.html or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Massachusetts Radio stations http://www.usnewslinks.com/radiostations/ma.html or http://www.ontheradio.net/states/massachusetts.aspx Berkshire Eagle http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ Boston Globe It – like most papers - has a Globe Extra feature that lets subscribers search and print out articles free. This is very useful for documenting affidavits supporting voir dire http://www.boston.com/globe/ Boston Herald http://www.bostonherald.com/ CNN website It often has transcripts available for their programming. http://cnn.com Federal News Service – full text speeches, hearings and debates. http://www.fnsg.com/ FindArticles.com "is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost." http://www.findarticles.com Hampshire Gazette http://www.gazettenet.com/ Lawrence Eagle Tribune http://www.eagletribune.com/ Lowell Sun www.lowellsun.com Magazine Portal Find individual articles from many free magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. From The Atlantic Monthly to Entertainment Today to JAAPA to Mother Jones. http://www.magportal.com/ New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/ Patriot Ledger http://www.patriotledger.com/ Virtual LRC Online Magazine Search Page "1. Enter keyword(s) 2. Select magazine(s) desired. (select up to 4) and click Search. Try this first!" From Time to US News to New Republic to Discover and NY Review of Books http://www.virtuallrc.com/magsearch.html Worcester Telegram http://www.telegram.com/
Police: State and Federal State: Every Police Department in the Commonwealth http://www.masshome.com/police.html Massachusetts Racial and Gender Profiling Institute of Justice Report http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/IRJsite_docs/technicalreport.pdf Polygraph American Polygraph Association http://www.polygraph.org/ Bibliography Federation of American Scientists with links to studies http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/index.html Journal of Credibility Assessment And Witness Psychology. http://truth.boisestate.edu/jcaawp/default.html Using Polygraph Evidence after Scheffer, Part 1 http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/698c98dd101a846085256eb400500c01/431650fd793524a385256e540074c163?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,polygraph Using Polygraph Evidence after Scheffer, Part 2 http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/698c98dd101a846085256eb400500c01/0e5a4bd2793aaf2b85256e540074c16d?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,polygraph
Psychiatric & Psychological Journals American Journal of Psychiatry and all its articles online. http://www.psych.org/ Daubert Issues A Preview of the Post-Daubert Expert in Psychiatric testimony. http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artAskexp05.html Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychology: Searchable index. Great resource for those expert challenges. http://www.jaacap.com/ or http://www.jaacap.com/pt/re/jaacap/home.htm;jsessionid=GhVHcvTfQ0cJfYpzp1T1yPZjWGpPnK5qnF2nnncTps7NTLFXpZNW!1646970248!181195628!8091!-1 Journal of Credibility Assessment And Witness Psychology. Published by The Department of Psychology Boise State University. Editor: Charles R. Honts, Ph. D. The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology (JCAAWP) exists primarily on the World Wide Web. JCAAWP publishes original empirical, review, and theoretical work in all areas of the scientific study of credibility assessment and witness psychology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Psycho physiological Credibility Assessment; Statement Analysis; Malingering; Interviewing Techniques and Processes; Eyewitness Memory; Traumatic Memory; Child Witness Issues; Confession Phenomena and Interrogation; Legal Issues Related to All of These Topics. http://truth.idbsu.edu/jcaawp/default.html Journal National Center for PTSD http://www.ncptsd.org/ or http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp Journal Search Allows you to search dozens of psych journals. http://www.psychcrawler.com/ Journal Search Search all American Psychological Association Journals – over 35 journals through PsychCrawler. http://search3.apa.org/ Journal Search Searches 7 online psych. Journals. http://www.psychiatryonline.org/search.dtl Journal Search Welcome to AmoebaWeb, the Mental Health Net: award-winning site of psychology resources on the Web! Psychology Journals; Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP); Brain and Mind; APA Monitor; Der Zeitgeist: The Student Journal of Psychology! Traumatology; Gestalt! International Journal of Psycho-pathology, Psycho-pharmacology, and Experimental and General Psychology Neuroscience-Net. Links to Psychological Journals New England Journal of Medicine Electronic Journals. http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/ Online Journals This is the largest index of online journals which contains psychology, medical, legal, social sciences, etc. http://genamics.com/journals/index.htm or http://journalseek.net/index.htm
Psychiatric & Psychological Links
Web site of the Mental Health Litigation Unit Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. http://www.publiccounsel.net/index.html [Absolutely the BEST Site on the web.] and http://www.publiccounsel.net/practiceaids.html Anxiety Disorders http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/anxietymenu.cfm Diplomate Requirements Brochure discusses what the requirements are to become a Diplomate. http://www.abfp.com/certification.asp DSM-IV This is just a numerical listing of DSM-IV diagnoses and codes. There is also a link to a corresponding alphabetical listing. As far as I know, the complete DSM-IV isn't available on the web, but you may be able to at least find out whether it will have information on a particular psychiatric condition in it. http://www.dr-bob.org/tips/dsm4.html Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Links. http://www.tncrimlaw.com/forensic/f_psych.html Mega Resource Another major authoritative resource for many psychiatric and forensic issues. http://members.optushome.com.au/dwillsh/index.html Mood Disorders Everything you need to know about mood disorders, depression, the medications involved and how they make you act. http://www.psycom.net/ and http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html Neuropsychology This is an introductory page into the world of neuropsychology and how to identify problems in your clients. www.neuropsychologycentral.com/index.html PTSD National Center for PTSD Research and Education on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The information on this web site is presented for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for informed medical advice or training. Do not use this information to diagnose or treat a mental health problem without consulting a qualified health or mental health care provider. Directory: Information about PTSD; About the National Center for PTSD; PTSD Research Quarterly, NC-PTSD Clinical Quarterly, and more. The PILOTS Database: Our electronic index to the worldwide literature on traumatic stress. Direct link to search PILOTS now (using the DCIS graphic interface). PTSD Resource Center: The world's largest collection of traumatic stress literature. Links to Other WWW Sites. Http://www.ncptsd.org/ Schizophrenia Related Research Journals; Schizophrenia Scientific and Professional Organizations; University-Level Sources of Information; Layman information on Schizophrenia. http://www.schizophrenia.com/ Trauma Information Pages: These Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. http://www.trauma-pages.com/ Psychiatric Meds Medications This is a listing of hundreds of drugs with their effects, side effects, contra indications, etc. Very thorough. http://www.mentalhealth.com/p30.html Medications The 52 most common mental disorders including: description, diagnosis, treatment, and research findings. Medications: The 67 most common psychiatric drugs including: indications, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse effects, overdose, dosage, and research findings. http://www.mentalhealth.com/ Medication Effects Pharmaceutical descriptions of effects, life, side effects of many drugs. http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/attachments/National/br_1171992654.pdf Medication Effects Current, authoritative, and unbiased information on more than 11,000 generic and brand name drugs. Standard Elements — Searchable database of descriptions, precautions, proper use and side/adverse effects for more than 750 generic medicines. http://www.usp.org/aboutUSP/publicAccess.html Public Records Criminal Records Free Listed below are over 1,330 state, county, city and federal (court) URL's where you can access public record information for free. http://www.crimcheck.com/freerecords.htm Mass. Searchable Public Record Databases including: licensing and on line cities and towns. http://www.searchsystems.net/list.php?nid=30 by city and town Public Record Finder finds free public records using the largest public records search database on the World Wide Web http://www.publicrecordfinder.com/ Public Records Law http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcmu/arcpub.htm http://www.sec.state.ma.us/pre/preidx.htm Lets you know what is a public record from accident reports to internal affairs. Statewide Criminal Background Check Resources http://www.casanet.org/program-management/volunteer-manage/criminal-bkg-check.htm Vital Records “This page contains information about where to obtain copies of Massachusetts vital records, such as birth & death certificates, marriage licenses & divorce decrees. See the guidelines for information on how to order vital records. Check the related links for additional information on Massachusetts and ordering vital records. http://vitalrec.com/ma.html |