Refugee Women and Their Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives
by Ellen Cole, Dr Esther D Rothblum, and Oliva M Espin
The Truth about Eating Disorders, Second Edition (Truth about)
by General Editors Robert N Golden M D and Fred L Peterson Ph D
The 2007 Report on Agricultural Hand Sprayers Under 1 Gallon
by Philip M. Parker
The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to work with those who need their help.Illness and Image introduces undergraduates and professionals to the medical humanities, using a series of case studies, beginning with...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
by P Subcomittee on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of the Committe
De PALPA is een uitgebreide testbatterij, ontworpen voor het onderzoeken van de psycholinguistische vermogens van volwassen patienten met een verworven afasie. De PALPA is zowel een diagnostisch als een onderzoekinstrument en bevat een hoeveelheid materiaal die de gebruiker in staat stelt om taken te selecteren die zijn toegesneden op de gestoorde en intacte vermogens van de individuele patient. Het resultaat is een gedetailleerd profiel dat kan worden geinterpreteerd in termen van huidige cog...
Author Kathleen Nosek offers dyslexic adults a unique approach that gets to the heart of the biggest problem they face-the shame and battered self-esteem resulting from decades of struggling with this frustrating and often misunderstood learning disability.
A breathtaking exploration of the power of our brains to bring order and creativity to the universe In 2014, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis designed a robotic suit which enabled Juliano Pinto, a young Brazilian paraplegic, to kick off the ceremonial first ball of the World Cup--using only his mind. In The True Creator of Everything, Nicolelis offers a brand new theory that both explains how he accomplished this near-miraculous feat and demands a total reappraisal of the brain's...
A leading neurobiologist explores the fundamental function of dendritic spines in neural circuits by analyzing different aspects of their biology, including structure, development, motility, and plasticity.Most neurons in the brain are covered by dendritic spines, small protrusions that arise from dendrites, covering them like leaves on a tree. But a hundred and twenty years after spines were first described by Ramón y Cajal, their function is still unclear. Dozens of different functions have be...