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Cognitive Neurology : A clinical textbook
ISBN: 9780198569275 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many clinicians within neurology remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades, and how these might affect clinical practice. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioral aspects of the clinical practice of neurology.
Many clinicians within neurology remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last d...
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Cognition and Addiction
ISBN: 9780198569299 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is only recently that the cognitive aspects of addictive behaviors have begun to be investigated by experimental psychologists and neuroscientists. This is the first book to investigate the complex inter-play of cognitive mechanisms that subserve subjective experiences associated with addiction, such as drug craving, as well as relapse.
It is only recently that the cognitive aspects of addictive behaviors have begun to be investigated by experimental psychologists and neuroscientists....
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760,29 |
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From Basic Pain Mechanisms to Headache
ISBN: 9780198569817 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the topics of pain and headache are obviously linked, these two research fields have in recent years developed at their own pace, often with scant attention paid to the other. This book brings together researchers and clincians from the forefront of these two disciplines to explore how the basic pain mechanisms relate to migraine and other forms of headache.
Though the topics of pain and headache are obviously linked, these two research fields have in recent years developed at their own pace, often with sc...
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864,70 |
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Multiple Sclerosis Care - A Practical Manual
ISBN: 9780198569831 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiple Sclerosis Care Manual is a concise and easy to use reference source for all aspects of care in the management and understanding of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It is useful for all health professionals invovled in the care of people with MS, including hospital doctors and Gps, therapists and social workers, as well as interested carers and people affected by the condition. It takes account of the latest scientific evidence and guidelines in the management of MS, and takes a practical and pragmatic approach to the evaluation of controversial aspects of MS care. The book is divided into...
Multiple Sclerosis Care Manual is a concise and easy to use reference source for all aspects of care in the management and understanding of Multiple S...
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166,33 |
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Headache Clinics : Organisation, Patients and Treatment
ISBN: 9780199296569 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are few specialised headache centres throughout the world and those that do exist are often not developed enough to provide the services required. This book takes a look at the current situation examining the organisation of headache clinics, methods of diagnosis and treatment and how the future of headache clinics can be improved. Headache is a huge public health problem and migraine alone cost 27 billion Euros per year in Europe. It is therefore important how the health care service for headache patients is organised throughout the world. Patients seen at headache clinics are more...
There are few specialised headache centres throughout the world and those that do exist are often not developed enough to provide the services require...
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Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty
ISBN: 9780262511353 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field.Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome of his research and brought about novel results. He then goes beyond this story of serendipity to propose a new classification of the varieties of chance, drawing on his own research and examples from the... This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ... |
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A Clinical Guide to Alcohol and Drug Problems
ISBN: 9780275921620 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written specifically for family or primary care physicians who encounter substance abuse in their daily practice. "A Clinical Guide to Drug and Alcohol Problems" provides a comprehensive overview to help diagnose and treat these problems. The first five chapters provide basic information on historical and cultural issues, plus the pharmacology of all abused drugs the physician is likely to come into contact with and the epidemiology and etiology of substance abuse problems. The author then addresses the clinical manifestions and course of addiction; diagnostic techniques;... This book is written specifically for family or primary care physicians who encounter substance abuse in their daily practice. "A Clinical Guide to... |
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360,89 |
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Sex and Love: Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery
ISBN: 9780275937942 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People can be addicted to sex and/or love and recovery is possible. More than ten years ago the National Institute of Health identified sexual addiction as a research priority. Experts now conservatively estimate a prevalence rate of 5 percent of the American population. Eric Griffin-Shelley provides a detailed definition of sex and love addiction as well as an outline of treatment and recovery. Unique to this work, Griffin-Shelley integrates sex and love in its formulation and also presents a two-level approach to recovery. This presentation provides in-depth examples and suggestions for... People can be addicted to sex and/or love and recovery is possible. More than ten years ago the National Institute of Health identified sexual addi... |
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Children and Addiction
ISBN: 9780275951719 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the fear surrounding the issue of drug use by our children, there is little information to guide those interested in providing help to children vulnerable to substance abuse. "Children and Addiction" addresses the needs of counselors, teachers, parents, and other concerned parties by describing the influence of habit formation, opportunity, access, predisposition, family relationships, the educational environment, and interpersonal communication as precursors to the addictive process. The effects of addiction and its impact upon the individual, family, school, and society are... Despite the fear surrounding the issue of drug use by our children, there is little information to guide those interested in providing help to chil... |
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Social Aspects of Alcoholism
ISBN: 9780306371141 / Angielski / Twarda / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first three volumes of this series have dealt with materials which generally justify the title, The Biology of Alcoholism. This is only remotely true of the present volume, Social Aspects of Alcoholism, or of the final volume to come, Treatment and Rehabilitation. Except for small portions of the treatment section which involve pharmacotherapy, much of these last two volumes deals with the psychological aspects of alcoholism and still more with the social. It is interesting to review the evolution of this new pattern over the past seven years, a pattern which, had it existed initially,...
The first three volumes of this series have dealt with materials which generally justify the title, The Biology of Alcoholism. This is only remotely t...
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Substance Abuse and Psychopathology
ISBN: 9780306418495 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Substance misuse and abuse exist in almost every human society. In our western civilization, the bulk of attention has focused on those indi viduals who specifically seek treatment or those who have become so disabled by these problems that they require treatment. These indi viduals usually qualify for a psychiatric diagnosis of alcohol or other substance abuse. However, just as it has been recognized that primary substance abuse is frequently associated with other diagnosable psychi atric disorders, such as sociopathy or attention deficit disorder (residual type) and that the origins of...
Substance misuse and abuse exist in almost every human society. In our western civilization, the bulk of attention has focused on those indi viduals w...
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Determinants of Substance Abuse: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental Factors
ISBN: 9780306418730 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the recent increase in the scope of drug and alcohol problems has come an awareness of the need for solutions. In this context, federal support for research on drug problems increased tremendously during the last 10 to 15 years with the establishment of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Funding from these and other sources has led to a substantial increase in the quantity and quality ofpublished work related to substance abuse. As data accumulate, it is becoming more apparent that substance abuse problems are...
With the recent increase in the scope of drug and alcohol problems has come an awareness of the need for solutions. In this context, federal support f...
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Alcohol and the Brain: Chronic Effects
ISBN: 9780306419980 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chronic and excessive alcohol consumption disrupts a number of biologic sys tems. Central nervous system pathology, associated with long-standing alcohol ingestion, has particularly deleterious consequences to the individual. Compro mising brain functional integrity ultimately militates against psychosocial ad justment, and this process is inevitably reflected as a substantial economic loss to society in the form of costs for providing medical and social services, as well as disability and absenteeism from work. This book marshals the literature pertinent to the effects of chronic alcohol...
Chronic and excessive alcohol consumption disrupts a number of biologic sys tems. Central nervous system pathology, associated with long-standing alco...
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Marijuana
ISBN: 9780306430626 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in Amer ica. Some 40% of the adult population has tried mari juana at least once. It is the third largest agricultural commodity in the nation and a $10 billion industry. In many areas of the country, marijuana production or sale is the largest moneymaker by far. In Florida, for ex ample, it ranks ahead of every business except tourism. It is also a widely misunderstood substance. An en tire generation of Americans grew up believing that marijuana was virtually risk-free. This belief persists, despite growing evidence of physical, psychological,...
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in Amer ica. Some 40% of the adult population has tried mari juana at least once. It is the third large...
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Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, and Behavioral Neurology
ISBN: 9780306431364 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written for the clinician, students, and practitioners of neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioral neurology. It has been my intent throughout to present a synthesis of ideas and research findings. I have reviewed thousands of articles and research reports and have drawn extensively from diverse sources in philosophy, psychol ogy, neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychiatry, physiology, and neuroanatomy in order to produce this text. Of course I have also drawn from my own experience as a clinician and research scientist in preparing this work and in this regard some of my...
This book is written for the clinician, students, and practitioners of neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioral neurology. It has been my inte...
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805,10 |
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Case Studies in Insomnia
ISBN: 9780306437915 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If ever a book could be called timely, this is it. Sleep disorders medicine has made rapid advances in recent years. The field has attained growing respectability, with a textbook recently published, a congressionally man dated National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, and a growing public awareness of the importance of sleep disorders. However, this rapid growth has made the discrepancy among certain components of the field all the more obvious. Thus, we find that patients who complain of insom nia are almost never in the majority of those seen in sleep disorders centers, in spite of...
If ever a book could be called timely, this is it. Sleep disorders medicine has made rapid advances in recent years. The field has attained growing re...
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Handbook of Neuropsychological Assessment: A Biopsychosocial Perspective
ISBN: 9780306439407 / Angielski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growth of clinical neuropsychology has been unprecedented. This growth has been oriented more toward the provision of than toward the foundation for services. Thus, while a greater number of psychologists are performing a greater number of neuropsychological procedures, there seems to us an uneven parallel growth between these services and the empirical foundations for them. It should come to no one's surprise that increasingly aggressive attacks on the field have been leveled. Despite these attacks, clinical neuropsychology con tinues to enjoy exceptional growth within psychology and...
The growth of clinical neuropsychology has been unprecedented. This growth has been oriented more toward the provision of than toward the foundation f...
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Dementia
ISBN: 9780306442865 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dementia is a state that has implications for several groups. There are, first, those who wish to assess its nature and impact in an objective and scientific fashion, using tools of research to uncover dementia's causes, effects, and parameters. The result has been a rapidly expanding literature in diverse disciplines: physiology, chemistry, neurology, psychology, and sociology, among others. Second, there are those professionals and caregivers who work di rectly with patients and other caregivers and who must assess and apply interventions. Third, physicians are involved in diagnosis and...
Dementia is a state that has implications for several groups. There are, first, those who wish to assess its nature and impact in an objective and sci...
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The Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks
ISBN: 9780306446115 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These acclaimed volumes provide a firm methodological foundation for the evaluation of neural and behavioral toxicology, and address emerging hypotheses about the actions of pollutants on brain function. In Volume 3 distinguished contributors discuss the difficulties of assessing the effects of pervasive toxins in air and water.
These acclaimed volumes provide a firm methodological foundation for the evaluation of neural and behavioral toxicology, and address emerging hypothes...
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921,89 |
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Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment: A Cognitive Approach
ISBN: 9780306448690 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neuropharmacological bases of cognition and behavior, cur rent cognitive theory in many different domains of functioning, and the nature and tools of clinical assessment. Although the cognitive functions and abilities of interest are often the same, each of these fields has grappled with them from sometimes very different perspectives. Terminology is often specific to a particular discipline or ap...
Practicing neuropsychologists and students in clinical neuropsychology must increas ingly cross disciplinary boundaries to understand and appreciate t...
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