but here's a good list from my databases, all of which were in one "sticky" or another on Braintalk (1):



The Neuropathy Association:

www.neuropathy.org

TNA has an index of types of neuropathy. At the site click on one of the categories, such as "Immune Neuropathies", and you get a pdf document including epidemiology, symptoms, risk factors, laboratory signs, prognosis . . .very good starting point for understanding various neuropathies.

http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/naltbrain.html

This is the diagnostics entry point for the huge neuromuscular conditions database at Washington University of St. Louis' medical website. It is written primarily in outline form, and mostly for medical professionals, but it is extraordinarily comprehensive; going through the links and sub links reveals a wealth of info on neuropathy (and other neuromuscular conditions).

http://www.aafp.org/afp/980215ap/poncelet.html

The famous Poncelet protocols. Outside of neurology textbooks, this article has become the "gold-standard" guidleine for many physicians and neuros for investigating the causes of potential neuropathies. The flow charts are particularly instructive (and good to show ingorant physicians).

http://www.thecni.org/reviews/13-2-p07-treihaft.htm

One of the best articles I know written about small-fiber neuropathies, which can be difficult to diagnose, as "standard" test for neuropathy often come up "normal" and fail to reveal them (and meanwhile patients suffer). The reference list is excellent--it includes many of the seminal papers on skin biopsy, autonomic testing, and small-fiber vasculitis and other causes of small-fiber dysfunction (these can themselves be investigated if one wants).

http://www.questdiagnostics.com/hcp/...eralNeurop.htm

A small but dense clinical application paper about laboratory tests to investigate causes of peripheral neuropathy. Dr. Latov heads the Cornell Weill Center for Peripheral Neuropathy in New York City, and he and his staff may be the world's leading experts on immune-mediated neuropathies (not that they're slouches in other realms, either). (All docs there are both researchers and clinicians--and, I can tell you from personal experience, and informed patient can have great discussions with them.)

http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medici...uropathies.htm

Another good paper--this one form Dr. Alan Berger and his colleagues at Jacksonville Shands. It provides a good overview of diagnosis and treatment options for various kinds of neuropathies, and suggests a particular categorizing method to understand them.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi...full/26/5/1553

If you ever wanted to understand diabetic autonomic neuropathy, this article's for you. In fact, Dr. Aaron Vinik is probably the world's leading expert on diabetic neuropathy of all kinds, and googling his name can keep you busy for months. (This article has a reference list one could choke on, but it contains almost every important paper on diabetic neuropathy written in the last 30 years.)

http://www.diabetesforum.net/cgi-bin...content_id=341

An excellent and comprehensive overview of diabetic neuropathy from an unlikely source--Gopi Memorial Hosptial in India.

[url]http://www.neuropathymd.org/topical/18/Neuropathy%20and%20Monoclonal%20Gammopathy.pdf#sea rch='Latov%20Monoclonal'[url]

Another Latov article on an often overlooked generator of neuropathy--para or M-proteins in the blood, sometimes related to blood dyscrasias.

Liza Jane's spreadsheets have already been posted above--and I highly encourage their use.

And--for those who like to look up many conditions in one place, I highly recommend the Emedicine series of articles; just go to emedicine.com. You have to sign up as a user, but then you can peruse the database. The material is dense--written for medical personnel, again--but highly comprehensive.

So hopefully this will be a good start, and others should feel free to add to it--either general articles or those on more specific conditions.