Learn how cannabis can help spark your creativity! Cannabis has long been used and revered for its many benefits, from its widely acknowledged medical applications to its commonly accepted ability to help people relax. And now, with the list of states and countries legalizing marijuana usage for all purposes growing rapidly, we ve finally reached a tipping point where cannabis is achieving a level of mainstream acceptance and usage, especially among artists. Many established and aspiring artist...
ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
by Paul H Wender
Paul Wender began his career treating children with ADHD 37 years ago and has treated adults with the disorder for almost 30 years. His exhaustive research and insight gained from clinical practice led to the first book about ADHD in children (Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children, 1971). Continuing research revealed that in many instances ADHD persisted into adult life, and that adult ADHD included symptoms that were not present in childhood. These findings resulted in his 1995 book Attention D...
Psychopharmacology
With increases in the prevalence of psychiatric and behavioral disorders and rapid advances in the development of new drug therapies, there is an increasing need to present the science behind these developments. Students and educators are often confronted with conflicting and exaggerated claims about the effectiveness of drugs. As recently as ten years ago, the mechanisms of action of many medications prescribed for common psychological disorders were not well understood, even by the scientists...
Vulnerability to Depression
by Rick E Ingram, Ruth Ann Atchley, and Zindel V Segal
Over the last two decades, we have seen a dramatic spike in young people taking psychiatric medication. As new drugs have come on the market and diagnoses have proliferated, prescriptions have increased many times over. The issue has sparked heated debates, with most arguments breaking down into predictable pro-med advocacy or anti-med jeremiads. Yet, we’ve heard little from the “medicated kids” themselves. In Dosed, Kaitlin Bell Barnett, who began taking antidepressants as a teenager, takes...
This volume includes spectroscopic methods for the characterization of macromolecules. Methods span the electromagnetic spectrum from X-ray to microwaves. It focuses on the types of information that can be derived: how measurements are made; state of the art apparatus; data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; casebook examples; and new developments and future directions.
Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum
The field of emotions research has recently seen a period of growth and expansion, both in traditional psychological literature and in gerontology. This text provides a broad overview and summary of where this field stands today, specifically with reference to lifecourse issues and aging. Written by a group of contributing authors, the text illustrates a life span developmental framework, a multidimensional view of emotion and its development, and quantitative and qualitative research findings....
Cannabis (Marijuana) & Cannabinoids
This is a comprehensive look and meta-analysis of the accuracy of self-reports, spanning more than 40 years of social science research. Factors are identified that affect response accuracy and practical suggestions are made for improving the accuracy of surveys. This book will be invaluable to anyone who is involved in designing surveys and interpreting their results.
Discoveries in Pharmacology
Psychotropic and Neurotropic Drugs and Neurotransmitter Receptors
by R. Takahashi
Perspectives on Human Computer Interaction
The field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has attracted researchers with interests as diverse as formal mathematics, ethnography, cognitive psychology, and conversation analysis. Each approach has different assumptions and perspectives on the practical problem of designing more effective systems. Perspectives on HCI: Diverse Approaches contains 10 tutorial chapters, each written to illustrate a particular approach to HCI. The authors are all international authorities in their particular fiel...
Handbook of Perception and Action (Handbook of perception & action, Vol 3)
by Odmar Neumann and Andries F. Sanders
Reviewing state-of-the-art research in the areas of perception and action, this work stresses the functional relationships between them. The third work in a three-volume set, this text illustrates the ubiquity of the selective and control mechanisms that make up "attention" by uniting many diverse approaches. In three sections, the book covers information intake, central control functions, and the intensity aspect. An additional chapter on brain potentials reflects the prospects of electrophysio...
Contemporary Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanism (Selected Methods in Enzymology)
Kinetic studies of enzyme action provide powerful insights into the underlying mechanisms of catalysis and regulation. These approaches are equally useful in examining the action of newly discovered enzymes and therapeutic agents. Contemporary Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanism, Second Edition presents key articles from Volumes 63, 64, 87, 249, 308 and 354 of Methods in Enzymology. The chapters describe the most essential and widely applied strategies. A set of exercises and problems is included t...
This twenty-first edition of "Annual Editions: Drugs, Society And Behavior" provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. "Using Annual Editions In The Classroom" is offered...
Advances in Organometallic Chemistry (Advances in Organometallic Chemistry)
Almost all branches of chemistry and material science now interface with organometallic chemistry--the study of compounds containing carbon-metal bonds. This widely acclaimed serial contains authoritative reviews that address all aspects of organometallic chemistry, a field that has expanded enormously since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964.
Drugging Our Children (Childhood in America)
This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a drug-fueled mental health system. Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of antipsychotics to treat children for an ever-expanding list of symptoms. The prescription rate for toddlers,...
The Universality of Subjective Wellbeing Indicators (Social Indicators Research, #16)
This book is concerned with the universality of wellbeing indicators. It provides contributions from international scholars in the field of quality of life and subjective well-being. The book provides substantial conceptual coverage on issues relating to the universality of subjective wellbeing including detailed discussion of central underlying mechanisms and processes involved in subjective wellbeing. The main topics covered include: the theoretical bases for the measurement of quality of life...
Psychology and the Aesthetics of the Built Environment
by Arthur E. Stamps
Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using traditional design judgment, but when the powers of the government are used to enforce policy the scope of the aesthetic evaluation requires consideration of questions such as `What concepts will aesthetic decision makers need to perform their intended function?', `How c...
Consumer's Guide to Psychiatric Drugs
by John Preston, John H. O'Neal, and Mary C. Talaga
Looks at the history of psychiatric medicine and provides information on the purpose, dosage, side effects, interactions, and long-term effects of psychiatric drugs.