Weissberg A, Caponio J F, Lunin L F
J Am Soc Inf Sci. 1987 Jan;38(1):52-9. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198701)38:1<52::AID-ASI10>3.0.CO;2-2.
The Neurological Information Network (NIN) of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS) was a loosely structured assemblage of a variety of information-transfer activities that existed for approximately 20 years, starting in the early 1960s. These activities included the Neurosciences Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Parkinson's Disease Information Center at Columbia University, the Brain Information Service at UCLA, the Information Center for Hearing, Speech, and Disorders of Human Communication at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, the Clinical Neurology Information Center at the University of Nebraska, the Cerebrovascular Disease Abstracts generated at the Mayo Foundation and appearing in the journal Stroke, and Epilepsy Abstracts published by Excerpta Medica. The article discusses primarily the sociopolitical factors that govern the creation and life of activities of the type enumerated.
美国国立神经与沟通障碍及中风研究所（NINCDS）的神经信息网络（NIN）是一个结构松散的组织，它集合了各种信息传递活动，从20世纪60年代初开始，大约存在了20年。这些活动包括麻省理工学院的神经科学研究项目、哥伦比亚大学的帕金森病信息中心、加州大学洛杉矶分校的脑信息服务中心、约翰霍普金斯医疗机构的听力、言语及人类沟通障碍信息中心、内布拉斯加大学的临床神经学信息中心、梅奥基金会编制并发表在《中风》杂志上的脑血管疾病文摘，以及医学文摘社出版的癫痫文摘。本文主要讨论了支配上述这类活动创建及存续的社会政治因素。
