The NARSAD web site has changed its name; it is now the Brain and Behavior Research Fund. The home page features changing headlines at the top, news, a video, partners, and links for Schizophrenia, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Childhood Disorders, and Other Psychiatric Disorders. One feature that I liked was the ability to share and discover more information and with social networks via links to them.

This site also has links to “credentials,” like the Better Business Bureau, Verisign, and the charities to which it affiliates. These credentials made the site more credible for me, as is probably the organization's intention. The link for 2011 Spring Quarterly brought me to a .pdf file of The Brain & Behavior's Research Foundation magazine, which featured new research discoveries; interviews with Dr. Roth, M.D, Ph.D., a distinguished professor, and Karuna Sabramaniam, Ph.D. , a researcher; “Ask the Researcher;” “Frequently Asked Questions on Mental Health;” advances in mental health treatment; new mental health treatments; an events calendar; and a glossary.

The menu at the top of the home page consisted of highlighted blue links to About Us, Research News, Donate & Volunteer, Events, Disorders, Grants & Prizes, and Media Room. Four colored boxes across the middle of the page gave access to “Who We Are,” “Get the Facts,” “Join Our Community,” and “Support the Science.” NARSAD also has a newsletter which can be accessed by clicking on the small link at the very top of the page near the right. I almost did not see the links there because they were so small. The newsletter covers breakthroughs, discoveries, and recovery issues in mental health. It has three of the articles that are in the magazine, so it is really a smaller version of it. On the newsletter page there are also links to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The other small links are Multimedia, Resources, Publications, RSS, Contact Us, and Home.

The Multimedia link gives access to interviews of TV personalities with mental health disorders and top issues of concern. The Resource link has many informative links to brochures and fact sheets plus support groups and service organizations for mental health. There is even information about the Suicide Hotline. On the Multimedia page, the small links found at the top of the home page appear in a larger menu on the left-hand side for easy access.

The Research News link has many links to information about funding, findings in mental health issues, and featured researchers. I clicked on the Disorders link, then Schizophrenia, and found the information from across the site on one page, which included interviews and multimedia. On this page, I clicked on the SZ Magazine.com link and was taken to an online magazine dedicated to schizophrenia. A person can shop for DVDs, read stories of those with schizophrenia and coping, get links to organizations, answer surveys, subscribe to newsletters, read book reviews, and poetry without a subscription. A subscription for the print magazine for four issues is $19.95 per year, which includes the articles not available online.

I clicked on the Events link and there were clickable menus on the side and the middle of the page for local and international events. The menu on the side was larger; it consisted of Team Up Fundraising Events, Mental Health Research Events, Past Fundraising Events, Past Research Events, Team Up For NARSAD, and Get The Word Out. These included family and sports events. There was a link to make your own fundraiser, a volunteer link, and find an event in your area. This last link brought you back to the main Events page where you had to browse through the events anyway.

Overall, this was a well-planned web site. It did not have as much information as some of the larger mental health web sites, but it offered quality information, links to helpful organizations, and some winning interviews in the media section. There were opportunities to interact and there was NARSAD contact information on almost every page of the Disorder section. I did like that the About Us link was the first on the home page, which also lent credence to the site. There was also a text size changer at the very top right, a nice feature, but it was difficult to notice. This is definitely a site worth visiting; it zeroes in on several mental health conditions and does not try to cover everything, which makes everything easier to find.