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Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Research Practice Policy

Springer, 2012

Assisting someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer’s disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from...

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine

Academic Press, 2004

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine examines how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. This revealing research covers various conditions that predominantly occur in men, and as well conditions that predominantly occur in women. Among the...

Personality Disorder: Temperament or Trauma? An Account of an Emancipatory Research Study Carried Out by Service Users Diagnosed with Perso (Forensic Focus)

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002

Personality Disorder (PD) is one of the most difficult psychological conditions to classify and treat and in the past literature on the subject has tended to neglect the invaluable viewpoint of sufferers themselves. Drawing on extensive research carried out in conjunction with service users, Heather Castillo seeks to adjust this imbalance and...

Psychodermatology: The Psychological Impact of Skin Disorders

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Psychodermatology covers all aspects of how the mind and body interact in relation to the onset and progression of various skin disorders. This book is the first text written by a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, child specialists and dermatologists for all the health professionals who treat patients with...

Endocannabinoids: The Brain and Body's Marijuana and Beyond

CRC Press, 2005

Over the past decade, there have been major advances in understanding the mechanisms whereby marijuana interacts with the brain in producing psychoactive and potentially therapeutic effects. The discovery of specific gene coding for cannabinoid receptors activated by smoking marijuana, and the finding of endogenous cannabinoids, which...

Pediatric ENT

Springer, 2007

Each patient is a part of a society: successful care given to that patient adds value to that society. Pediatric otolaryngology encompasses the traditional purposes of medicine in the prevention and curing of illness. It also focuses especially on hearing, speech, gustation and the sense of smell, swallowing and respiration....

The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia

Cambridge University Press, 2003

The aim of this book is to weave together the diverse threads of epidemiological research in schizophrenia into a single volume that captures the new and exciting themes that have been emerging over recent years. Diverse topics are juxtaposed to expose synergy and to reveal new avenues of work, while the power of the epidemiological...

Lysosomal Storage Disorders: A Practical Guide

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Awareness of lysomal storage disorders needs to be raised and there is very substantial pharmaceutical interest to do so. The disorders are often viewed as obscurities but in fact they are treatable. Enzyme replacement therapy is available for four of the disorders and will be available for a further three disorders in the course of the next...

Health-related quality of life in cardiovascular patients

Springer, 2012

A modern definition of health goes beyond the biological dimension to encompass human functionality and well-being. Quality of life is one of the most popular health-related concepts and simultaneously reflects several dimensions of individual health. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is taken to include physical, psychological, and...

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond

Grove Press, 1994

Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding storyÂpart of it hidden till now in secret Government filesÂof the role the mind-altering drug played in our recent...

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Knopf, 2014

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

Advanced Breast Cancer:: A Guide to Living with Metastatic Disease, 2nd Edition (Patient Centered Guides)

Patient Centered Guides, 1998

An estimated two million Americans alive today have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Each one of them lives with the fear of recurrence, and for good reason: for at least a third of women diagnosed with breast cancer, the disease will eventually spread. When this happens most people assume it means an immediate death sentence. The...

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