**FREE*STUFF** From Wiley: New Open Access Journals and Updated Articles

The good folks at Wiley sent out this announcement today:

Brain and Behavior is a new peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, providing rapid publication of high-quality open access research across neurology, neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry. The journal gives priority to contributions that are sound research reports, that are accessible to a broad readership and that enhance understanding of the brain and behavior.
Open access: freely available on Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central
Authors retain copyright and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License
Submit your next research article to Brain and Behavior.

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Other Featured Articles − Free access through May, via Wiley:

Allergy and risk of glioma: a meta-analysis
European Journal of Neurology

Current trends in stroke rehabilitation. A review with focus on brain plasticity
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Cluster headache - Acute and Prophylactic Therapy
Headache [Access more HERE including podcasts and virtual issues]

Antiplatelet therapy in secondary stroke prevention – state of the art
Journal of Cellular & Molecular Medicine

Neurotech Report
Neuromodulation

Memorial Symposium: Milestones in Neuropathology from Japan
Neuropathology

Glioblastoma, Cancer Stem Cells and Hypoxia
Brain Pathology

Apolipoprotein E and central nervous system disorders: Reviews of clinical findings
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Pathogenesis of CADASIL: Transgenic and knock-out mice to probe function and dysfunction of the mutated gene, Notch3, in the cerebrovasculature
BioEssays

Systemic low molecular weight drug delivery to pre-selected neuronal regions
EMBO Molecular Medicine

To live or to die: a matter of processing damaged DNA termini in neurons
EMBO Molecular Medicine


eLS is a comprehensive resource for students, lecturers and researchers with over 4,600 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed articles spanning the life sciences. Access content devoted to Neural tube defects: genetics and learn more here.


WIREs Cognitive Science addresses key topics from the perspectives of neuroscience, psychology, computational science, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and biology, featuring Language and brain. Find out more HERE.

Higher Prevalence of Psychiatric Symptoms Found in Children with Epilepsy: Gender Plays Major Role in Development of Psychiatric Problems

A newly published report in Epilepsia, official journal of the International League Against Epilepsy, reveals that children with epilepsy are more likely to have psychiatric symptoms, with gender a determining factor in their development. Findings showed that girls had more emotional problems, while boys had more hyperactivity/inattention problems and issues regarding peer relationships.
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Evidence Aid: Resources for Japanese earthquake and tsunami
The earthquake off the coast of Japan on Friday, 11 March, and the subsequent tsunami have caused tremendous destruction. The Cochrane Collaboration's Evidence Aid resources are available through this website and The Cochrane Library. They provide information on healthcare interventions that are relevant to flooding and treating injuries. Furthermore, in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell, Evidence Aid has opened free, one-click access to the whole contents of The Cochrane Library to everyone in Japan.
To access the Evidence Aid resources CLICK HERE. Japanese version also available.

Special Journal Issues and News
Special Issue: Sleep substances, sleep architecture, and sleep sociology - Centennial anniversary of the first discovery of sleep substances

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kuniomi Ishimori of Japan and Henri Piéron of France independently found that a dog will fall asleep after receiving an intracerebral injection of a brain extract or cerebrospinal fluid from another dog kept without sleep for a long time, and predicted the presence of "sleep substances" that accumulated in the brain while the animal was awake.

On 24–27 October 2009, the Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR) celebrated the centennial anniversary of Kuniomi Ishimori's landmark paper, "Sleep-inducing substance(s) demonstrated in the brain parenchyma of sleep-deprived animals − a true cause of sleep", at a joint congress in the City of Osaka.

Sleep professionals from around the world participated in the joint congress, and have kindly contributed their summaries of recent developments in sleep science to this special issue of Sleep and Biological Rhythms.
Read the special issue HERE.


Neurobiology Special Collection
From the mechanisms of addiction to the biological constraints underlying brain size and neuronal branching, with insights into Parkinson's and Alzheimer's on the way, this special collection covers an interesting range of papers from basic research through to biomedicine. Read these articles for free and leave a comment.

New to Wiley-Blackwell's Neurology Collection: Journal of Neuropsychology
Wiley-Blackwell is proud to publish the Journal of Neuropsychology on behalf of the British Psychological Society from 2011.  To read the latest issue, submit an article and much more, CLICK HERE.

Each year Wiley-Blackwell offers  free access to the January issue of each journal. View all neurology titles and 2011 sample issues on the Wiley Online Library.

Free Downloads and More On CRPS Diagnostic Criteria (Woo Hoo!)

In the course of writing one blog post, here I am authoring another.

I just ran across a good article in the newly launched Wiley Online Library -- then discovered the offer of free downloads of most read and most cited articles from the journal Pain Medicine (The Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and of the International Spine Intervention Society).

Okay, it amounts to just a handful of articles, but some of them are quite good, especially those of the sort I often malign (but always read!) -- the dread review article.

So let us rejoice.
Amen, and amen!

From Volume 8, Number 4, 2007 -- more on diagnostic criteria in CRPS, just in case you haven't realized the importance of this issue by the fact that I have been droning on and on about it at every opportunity.  Anyway, this is a great foundational article about the discussion and helps to put the IASP criteria and the Budapest group's proposals in context.

Proposed New Diagnostic Criteria for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

R. Norman Harden, MD, Stephen Bruehl, PhD, Michael Stanton-Hicks, MB, BS, DMSc, FRCA, ABPM, and Peter R. Wilson, MB, BS

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois;  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA


ABSTRACT:  This topical update reports recent progress in the international effort to develop a more accurate and valid diagnostic criteria for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). The diagnostic entity of CRPS (published in the International Association for the Study of Pain’s Taxonomy monograph in 1994; International Association for the Study of Pain [IASP]) was intended to be descriptive, general, and not imply etiopathology, and had the potential to lead to improved clinical communication and greater generalizability across research samples. Unfortunately, realization of this potential has been limited by the fact that these criteria were based solely on consensus and utilization of the criteria in the literature has been sporadic at best. As a consequence, the full potential benefits of the IASP criteria have not been realized. Consensus-derived criteria that are not subsequently validated may lead to over- or underdiagnosis, and will reduce the ability to provide timely and optimal treatment. Results of validation studies to date suggest that the IASP/CRPS diagnostic criteria are adequately sensitive; however, both internal and external validation research suggests that utilization of these criteria causes problems of overdiagnosis due to poor specificity. This update summarizes the latest international consensus group’s action in Budapest, Hungary to approve and codify empirically validated, statistically derived revisions of the IASP criteria for CRPS.

Formerly Wiley Interscience, the Wiley Online Library just launched  -- as in *yesterday* -- and it's got some great new features plus a few things in The Realm of The Free (my favorite realm!):

Free access and access information.

Free abstracts and chapter summaries:  All journal abstracts and chapter summaries in books and reference works are free to all users of Wiley Online Library.


Free sample issues:
Each journal has a free sample issue that you can find from the left menu of any journal page.


Free supporting information:
Some articles include extra supporting information and this is available free to all users of the website. You can find supporting information in an extra tab from the abstract or article page.


Access icons:
Shows users in libraries what is free, what you or your institution has subscribed to and you can access.


Access information:
Clearly see why you might not be able to access an article, book, chapter or whole product and find out your options. [Booo!]