Regardless of how long you've practiced, the challenges of keeping current never stop. Now there is a source available that can assist you in wading through essential testimony of a neuropsychologist in your personal injury, medical malpractice or workers' compensation cases. Written specifically for attorneys, Neuropsychology of the Attorney is your personal guide through every aspect of the case. This book is the only available resource for assisting you through testimony by a neuropsychologis...
This text summarizes and integrates the voluminous literature on the theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of reading disabilities. It is intended for reading researchers, practising school psychologists, and reading specialists. The book stresses the view that there are three major kinds of reading disabilities: developmental dyslexia, hyperlexia and non-specific reading disability and that treatment should be targeted at the poorly functioning reading component that is responsible for th...
In diesem Buch informiert der renommierte Kopfschmerzexperte Professor Dr. Hartmut Goebel uber Formen und Ursachen von Kopfschmerzen und Migrane sowie uber moderne Diagnosemoeglichkeiten und Therapieverfahren, inklusive alternativer Behandlungsverfahren. Daruber hinaus erhalten Betroffene wichtige Informationen und Tipps zur Selbsthilfe und Vorbeugung. Dazu gehoeren u.a. zahlreiche Adressen von Selbsthilfegruppen und Kliniken, Tipps zur richtigen Einnahme von Medikamenten und Hinweise auf wertvo...
Describes the memory-enhancing effects of the soybean derivative phosphatidylserine.
This handbook aims to be the headache patient's first line of defence. Written by two experts in the field, "Conquering Headache" describes the different types of headache, their causes, and their treatment - all in easy-to-understand, non-medical terms. Topics covered include medication and non-medicated treatment, nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, behavioral techniques, and pain management. Additionally, it offers practical guidelines for medication use, such as dosages, side effects, and lim...
The millions of people who smoke know that the ritual of smoke breaks is relaxing and comforting-almost as addictive as the nicotine itself. Those who make the decision to quit this unhealthy and expensive habit do not only have their nicotine addiction to contend with, but also lose the relaxing breaks that may help them keep perspective throughout the day. Due to this twofold loss, many people fail to maintain a smoke-free lifestyle, or go years without smoking only to pick up a cigarette when...
Molecular Neurobiology of Epilepsy (Epilepsy Research Supplements, v. 9)
by Jerome Engel
Molecular Neurobiology of Epilepsy reflects the rapid expansion of this exciting new area of neuroscience and provides a forum for the exchange of information betweeen investigators currently studying epileptic phenomena at the membrane, cellular and systems levels, using physiological, biochemical, anatomical, and clinical approaches, and molecular neurobiologists concerned with basic mechanisms of normal neuronal growth, development, and plasticity, that might, when disrupted, explain the appe...
Before and After Loss (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Lisa M. Shulman
In Before and After Loss, neurologist Dr. Lisa M. Shulman describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science behind the mind-altering experience of grief. Part memoir, part creative nonfiction, part account of scientific discovery, this moving book combines Shulman's perspectives as an expert in brain science and a keen observer of behavior with her experience as a clinician, a caregiver, and a widow. Drawing on the latest studies about grief and its effects, she explai...
Die klassische Neuroanatomie scheiterte am Versuch, eine Erklarungsbasis fur die Gesetzmassigkeiten von Kognition, Verhalten, Erinnerung und Emotion zu schaffen. Eine Cartesianische Geist-Koerper-Kluft verlauft daher mitten durch die Neurologie und Psychiatrie, die erst jetzt mit neuen neurobiologischen Einsichten eingeebnet wird. Der Autor entwickelt ein anatomisch und neurophysiologisch orientiertes Verstandnis fur Gefuhle, fur die Sexualitat, fur die trugerische Gewissheit von Erinnerung und...
This book offers the most up-to-date information on important topics of neurobiology covering from brain development to diseases. Section A introduces the structure and development of the brain, showing how they are specialized for the functions they serve. Section B is concerned with hormones and neurotransmitters. The next section addresses the various changes related to aging. The last two sections deal with different types of brain diseases including neurodegenerative diseases. All chapters...
Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas
by Patricia L. Anders and Barbara J. Guzzetti
Designed to enhance learning in content areas by improving reading, writing, and studying strategies. Begins with an historical overview of content area literacy. Discusses theory, the experiences of successful learners, the role of literacy in conceptual learning, and textbook and literature selection.
This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely_the majority of users_reduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the empha...
ABC of Alcohol (ABC, #27) (ABC S.)
Although doctors are mainly concerned with the physical or psychological problems of individual drinkers, the wider social consequences of alcohol misuse are just as important. Fully revised and updated, this fourth edition of the ABC of alcohol contains new sections on the impact of alcohol on Accident and Emergency departments and surgical practice as well as the potential dangers of the interaction of alcohol and legal and illegal drugs. This practical, well illustrated guide is an ideal refe...
Neoglycoconjugates are not only useful for the basic understanding of protein-carbohydrate interactions, but they have many practical applications as well. They are powerful reagents in many cell biology studies and excellent tools for the isolation and characterization of animal and plant lectins, separation of cells, as well as for the targeting of drugs, artificial vaccines, and diagnostic reagents. Volume 247 and its companion Volume 242 contain many practical methods on how to prepare and u...
Pain/Palliative Care, an Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #41)