Perform an effective search with novoseek: Asperger Syndrome and Bipolar disorder in autism

From novoseek, the team is trying hard to deliver a quality service and make our biomedical search engine an intuitive and easy to use one as well as powerful. Every now and then we have the opportunity to help someone with a search that results a bit difficult.

Today we’ve had the chance to catch a bribe of conversation on twitter where a medical doctor was wondering if anyone knew about Asperger Syndrome and Bipolar disorder in people affected by autism. We took the opportunity to suggest him a set of results and as he was satisfied, we are bringing it to you here so you can know how to perform an effective search with novoseek, your new biomedical search engine.

A good way to look for publications about asperger syndrome and bipolar disorder in autism is to start with autism from the main search box. The results page for autism displays 10.633 publications in Medline. We should use the related concepts in the left sidebar to refine the search. As they are classified by relevance to the current search and by concept, we should be able to identify what we need quickly.

Since Aperger syndrome is a disease, I have to click on the more link just next to disease in the left column. This allows to see all the diseases related to the current search for autism. In this case the seventh one is Asperger syndrome. I can click the iicon and chose Add filter or click directly on it to add it to the current search. We now have 681 results in Medline.

I am going to repeat the process with bipolar disorder. This one is almost at the bottom of the list.We now have 12 results in Medline for the search on Asperger syndrome and bipolar disorder in autism. According to them, the medical librarian was satisfied. It could be a good start to study in this field.

By default, documents are sorted by date (newest first) and document details are shown with snippets but you can sort them by relevance and chose to see more of every publication. Just click the icons and chose to see the title, sentences or the complete abstract.

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