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Vagus Nerve Healing
Some of these cranial nerve pairs will send off sensory information to the brain and body, such as the intricate details on sights and what you have seen throughout your day, certain smells that may have sparked a memory or left a bad or good impression, a taste that you may know and love or completely despise or that you may remember from way back when in your childhood, or a sound that you find to be familiar for some reason, but maybe you can't quite put your finger on it. In this book you will learn: - Nervous system- Cranial nerves- Vagus nerve- Anatomy and significance of vagus nerve- Vagus nerve as part of body's natural healing system- Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of epilepsy- Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of inflammation- Vagus nerve and its role in treatment in gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases- Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of depress and ptsdThe vagus nerve represents the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system, which oversees a vast array of crucial bodily functions, including control of mood, immune response, digestion, and heart rate. It establishes one of the connections between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract and sends information about the state of the inner organs to the brain via afferent fibers.
Vagus Nerve
All of these topics will be discussed in everyday terms so that they're easy to understand. By the end of the book, you'll have a thorough understanding of the vagus nerve and have the keys to set yourself up to be able to handle any situation where you're feeling overwhelmed. This book gives a comprehensive guide on the following: - The vagus nerve- Natural ways to stimulate your vagus nerve- Measuring nervous function with heart rate variability (hrv)- Substances that may interfere with the vagus nerve- Vagus nerve stimulation- The vagus nerve and bipolar disorder- The lungs and how the vagus nerve affects them- Measuring the vagus nerve tone- The polyvagal theory and ptsd- How to fix emotional detachment- ... And more!!!A lot of groundbreaking studies have discovered that stimulating the vagus nerve can help reduce inflammation, boost memory, and promote better mental health. However, as more people are embracing this lifestyle, there are lots of wrong information or misinformation out there.
Endocrine Self-Assessment Program Questions, Answers, Discussions (ESAP 2021)
Endocrine Self-Assessment Program (ESAP), Reference Edition 2021 is a self-study resource for physicians and health professionals wanting a self-assessment and broad review of endocrinology. It consists of approximately 120 multiple-choice questions in the areas of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Correct answers for each question are extensively discussed, with references provided, and the volume also contains a comprehensive syllabus. CME, MOC, online module not included. Updated annually.
Endocrine Self-Assessment Program Questions, Answers, Discussions (ESAP 2021)
Endocrine Self-Assessment Program (ESAP), Reference Edition 2021 is a self-study resource for physicians and health professionals wanting a self-assessment and broad review of endocrinology. It consists of approximately 120 multiple-choice questions in the areas of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. Correct answers for each question are extensively discussed, with references provided, and the volume also contains a comprehensive syllabus. CME, MOC, online module not included. Updated annually.
Mental Health Homicide and Society
A homicide committed by a mentally disordered person who is under the care of health service professionals is a shocking event. Otherwise known as a 'patient homicide', these incidents are followed by an investigation into the care and treatment received by the perpetrator. These investigations are often regarded as a way to 'learn lessons', establish accountability and provide catharsis to families and the public. The book argues however that patient homicide events and the circumstances in which they occur are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg law, medicine). These systems operate according to unique internal logics. The communications produced by these systems, nevertheless, resonate in society and enable a diverse and complex space of governance to emerge - a space of governance in which universal understandings about patient homicides, health care, public safety and risk are unachievable. The Scottish Government initiated reform of their patient homicide investigation procedures in 2017 and plans to reform patient homicide investigations in England are slowly germinating. This original and compelling book is therefore a timely and important contribution. It concludes that health policy makers should re-evaluate their normative commitments to patient homicide risk reduction in a world of disharmony, objection and resistance.
Reflections of a Psychiatrist
This book illustrates one of the most significant phases of international development of psychiatry with emphasis on Australian psychiatry and its recognition as the fundamental branch of medicine. Every sensation and thought create an emotion with its impact on the functioning of our brain and the status of our health. The book illustrates the journey of psychiatry from the times of lunatic asylums, the days of anti psychiatry, Freudian psychoanalysis as the only treatment, to the refinement of the state of art technology, psychopharmacology and present day equal human rights of the people with mental illness. The author has attempted to include the current scientific explorations, debates and information above the robust foundation of psychiatry, which can also make it a reference book, with its wide coverage and simplified concepts. The inclusion of case studies with changed identity of the patients make it even more readable and understanding the enigma of human emotions.
Reflections of a Psychiatrist
This book illustrates one of the most significant phases of international development of psychiatry with emphasis on Australian psychiatry and its recognition as the fundamental branch of medicine. Every sensation and thought create an emotion with its impact on the functioning of our brain and the status of our health. The book illustrates the journey of psychiatry from the times of lunatic asylums, the days of anti psychiatry, Freudian psychoanalysis as the only treatment, to the refinement of the state of art technology, psychopharmacology and present day equal human rights of the people with mental illness. The author has attempted to include the current scientific explorations, debates and information above the robust foundation of psychiatry, which can also make it a reference book, with its wide coverage and simplified concepts. The inclusion of case studies with changed identity of the patients make it even more readable and understanding the enigma of human emotions.
Terrorism, Violent Radicalisation and Mental Health
In recent years, mental illness has been frequently discussed in relation to radicalization, violence, and terrorism, yet there are few resources that explore the broad range of interconnecting factors that lead to this complex behavioural phenomenon. Terrorism, Violent Radicalization and Mental Health brings together distinct disciplinary and ideological narratives on the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of radicalisation and terrorism today. Across 18 chapters, it assesses a wide range of groups and types of extremism and terrorism from around the world, as well as key topics such as technology, social and international policies, ethics and cultural competency, and the role psychiatrists and mental health professionals play in treatment, management, and prevention. Written and edited by a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals, researchers, and legal experts from around the world, this resource bringing together theoretical and evidence-based perspectives, as well as practical real-life cases and first-person accounts, and suggestions for future interventions.
Free Indeed
One of the most challenging acts any human being will ever have to perform in life is forgiving. Although forgiving sounds simplistic, walking it out in real life is a journey. This act seems simple for some, but for others, the offenses are so deep that filing the void to become whole again can seem insurmountable. Take this journey of healing and wholeness, as the old is left where it belongs, in the past, and the new now has space to take residence.The forgiveness path will expose you and make you feel raw, but it will eventually cover you and mend broken pieces.
Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain
Chronic pelvic pain is a common debilitating condition that impairs quality of life and reproductive function in the female population worldwide. It is also an area in which the level of knowledge is generally poor among gynecologists. This book will help gynecologists and pain management specialists optimize assessment and treatment of women with chronic pelvic pain. It addresses the most common conditions causing chronic pelvic pain in women and offers practical guidelines for treatment. Exploring issues such as pudendal neuralgia and pain caused by pelvic nerve injuries and pelvic mesh. Other sections are dedicated to examining the psychological impact of pelvic pain and the impact of pain on sexuality and relationships. Algorithms on how to work-up and treat patients with chronic pelvic pain are a valuable addition, as well as advice on what to do in situations where known treatments have failed.
Anxiety in Older People
Historically, clinicians and researchers have focused on depression and dementia in older people, paying little attention to anxiety except as a complication of these disorders. However, increased research into late-life anxiety has seen a growth in scientific literature and clinical interest. This important book brings together international experts to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge in relation to anxiety in older people, highlighting gaps in both theory and practice, and pointing towards the future. Early chapters cover the broader aspects of anxiety disorders, including epidemiology, risk factors, diagnostic issues, association with insomnia, impaired daily functioning, suicidality, and increased use of healthcare services. The book then explores cross-cultural issues, clinical assessment, and pharmacological and psychological interventions across a variety of settings. An invaluable resource for mental health professionals caring for older people including researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, specialist geriatric nurses and social workers.
How to Promote Wellbeing
How to Promote Wellbeing is a timely resource designed to help all healthcare practitioners promote and protect their own and their patients' wellbeing and mental health. Focusing on practical strategies and guidance, this much-needed book explores approaches for reducing burnout, managing stress, coping with pressure in healthcare settings, recognising signs of impaired decision-making, and much more. Written specifically for busy healthcare practitioners, the book offers focused and succinct chapters on topics ranging from behaviours to improve resilience and mindfulness, to approaches for maintaining work-life balance when confronted with excessive workloads and organisational pressures. Throughout the text, evidence-based tools and techniques are provided to improve the practitioner's health and facilitate the delivery of high-quality care. Covering a wide range of clinical situations and important issues, this book: Examines global, organisational, and individual problem factors affecting mental health and wellbeing Discusses the impacts of chronic stress, burnout, technological and environmental factors, work-associated trauma, and sources of wellbeing strain Identifies factors that negatively affect patients' wellbeing in hospital, clinic, and outpatient settings Offers guidance for emergencies and available resources for those in personal crisis Includes a mental health and wellbeing toolkit, including assessments and strategies How to Promote Wellbeing is indispensable reading for doctors, nurses, dentists, therapists, counsellors, and other clinicians and health professionals.
A Practical Approach to Movement Disorders
"This updated edition, with its latest treatments and a primer on deep brain stimulation, is helpful for clinicians dealing with movement disorders. It will be an excellent addition to the library of those who see movement disorders." ---Doody's Review Service, 5 stars Revised Third Edition of the practical yet authoritative guide to diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders. Written in an expanded outline format, this book is packed with flow charts, algorithms, and tables to provide quick access to point-of-care information. Easy-to-read and thoroughly up-to-date, this new edition includes the latest diagnostic and treatment protocols, recent FDA-approved drugs, and non-pharmacological therapies. With coverage of all major disease categories, this essential handbook belongs in the pocket of any clinician who suspects a movement disorder in a patient. The book is organized by medical, behavioral, surgical, and non-pharmacological treatment approaches to movement disorders. Opening chapters walk the practitioner through clinical presentation, diagnosis, and work-up of common and uncommon disorders, sleep-related movement disorders, eye and vestibular function, including pediatric issues. Behavioral and psychiatric complications for Parkinson disease, Huntington disease, and Tourette syndrome follow, with a fully reconfigured chapter on functional movement disorders, incorporating changes in classification and treatment approach. Expanded chapters on surgical devices and indications address deep brain stimulation surgery; lesioning, shunts, and pumps; post-operative care; and neuropsychological, social, and ethical issues. The final section on non-pharmacological approaches covers physical and occupational therapy, speech and swallowing therapy, nutrition, and palliative care. Key Features: Thoroughly revised and updated third edition of popular practical resource for busy clinicians Incorporates most recent evidence for the pharmacological, behavioral, surgical, and non-pharmacological treatment of the full spectrum of movement disorders Expanded bullet-point outline format for quick access to essential information Loaded with illustrative flow charts, algorithms, and tables outlining drug dosing, side effects, and other therapeutic treatments Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers
O Livro de Bell
"O Livro de Bell" 矇 um guia essencial para aqueles que enfrentam esta dif穩cil mas, na maior parte das vezes, tempor獺ria experi礙ncia. Atrav矇s deste livro, ter獺 acesso ? valiosa perspectiva pessoal de algu矇m que sofreu de Paralisia de Bell e que se dedicou a uma extensa pesquisa para conhecer melhor esta misteriosa doen癟a. William Lawrence leu todos os livros, p獺ginas de Internet e publica癟繭es m矇dicas dispon穩veis e partilha consigo a informa癟瓊o e as solu癟繭es que surgem como mais cred穩veis e de que necessitar獺 para a sua recupera癟瓊o. "O Livro de Bell" 矇 um guia conciso e simples que lhe permitir獺 compreender, gerir e superar esta doen癟a.
The Healing Brain
The Healing Brain presents an easy-to-read, amusing, entertaining, and yet highly authoritative account of how our brain "minds" our body - actively guarding and defending our health and wellbeing. Neurologist Robert Ornstein and physician David Sobel highlight the themes most important to understanding this fascinating science. They explain that, contrary to many of our assumptions about the main purpose of our brain, it evolved primarily for "higher thinking" - and that, in fact, it works tirelessly to adapt to the changing world around us. This essential reference book helps us understand our brain as the original "health maintenance organization," and gives us the understanding we need to help it do what it does best: guard our health and help us to heal. This pioneering book helped bring about a new way of looking at the brain, one that restored the perspective that its major role is to mind the body and maintain health. The Healing Brain provided much of the raw material for the new view, and the collective weight of the findings helped close the artificial gap between mind and body.
Trial Tappers
Hugh decided to write this second self-help after his younger brother committed suicide and he came face-to-face with the man who sexually abused him as a child during the funeral service. As a licensed clinician, and a probation officer he has unique insight into the worst trials and traumas people experience in life. This second book in the TRIAL TAPPERS series is an indispensable guide to finding hope and creating lasting change. "Everyone can benefit from this rare display of openness, and the life lessons learned along the way." Brad Anderson, Co-founder Covey Leadership Center. Author: The View from Under My Desk-My Battle with Depression in the Workplace"While the area of Post-Traumatic Growth has been with us now for several decades, Hugh Watt gives us a new creative and practical path to pursue that can enable the reader to move beyond the effects of trauma." Mark J. Maggio, Ph.D. Chairman of the Board, Emeritus International Critical Incident Stress Foundation"Now, I can start thinking about my experiences in a meaningful way, take action, take charge, and feel much more in control of my life." Walter T. Simon, Ph.D. President- Progressive Therapy Systems"We all go through trials in life. Trials can make us bitter or better. The book Trial Tappers helps us understand and apply the principles to make us better. Hugh has gone through his own trials in life, including sexual trauma, and has become a better person because of the principles he has incorporated into his life. He is speaking from experience." Jason Webb MSW, LCSW"I appreciate that along with addressing the arena of traumas, (Hugh) gives specific tools that when followed leads the reader on a path that can, through putting in the work, result in healing." Dr. Ruth Gerritsen-McKane, LCSWThis book allows you to reflect on the success of others and find ways to apply helpful tools in your life.PRACTICAL! Stories for men and women will give you examples of how to apply each of the 12 new tools in this book and lets you see examples of others that have gone thru trials or traumas and became stronger despite the challenge.UNIQUE! Each chapter teaches you how to gain a positive growth mindset with simple quotes for you to consider.CRITICAL! Thought provoking grief recovery questions makes it easier to reflect on the success of others and find ways to apply those same skills in your life.A FRESH APPROACH! The featured 12 additional Trial Action Paths are useful tools that lets you find practical paths to overcome past, current, or future trials. Finally, a book to help survivors gain personal growth after grief from trials like divorce, death, loss and any other trial by fire you might have experienced.This book is proof that growth is possible for anyone who is struggling under the weight of the challenges life has thrown at them and a guide to finding hope and creating lasting change. This book delivers an immersive approach to teach key lessons that will help you move out of victimhood and toward confidence and peace.Whether your trials stem from sex abuse, addiction, finances, mental or physical health, PTSD, the loss of a family member or friend from suicide this book is for you. If you want to grow stronger after any trial you face in life, find practical paths to overcome past, current, or future trials try this book.
Trial Tappers
Hugh decided to write this self-help book after his younger brother committed suicide and he came face-to-face with the man who sexually abused him as a child during the funeral service. As a licensed clinician, and a probation officer he has unique insight into the worst trials and traumas people experience in life. "Everyone can benefit from this rare display of openness, and the life lessons learned along the way." Brad Anderson, Co-founder Covey Leadership Center. Author: The View from Under My Desk-My Battle with Depression in the Workplace"While the area of Post-Traumatic Growth has been with us now for several decades, Hugh Watt gives us a new creative and practical path to pursue that can enable the reader to move beyond the effects of trauma." Mark J. Maggio, Ph.D. Chairman of the Board, Emeritus International Critical Incident Stress Foundation"Using the Trial Action Path (TAP) approach Hugh teaches, the reader is able to understand the "normalcy" of their experience, but more importantly the ability to work through it and the potential to come out the other end a better and stronger person because of it. Geoffrey Leggett Assistant Chief of Police"Now, I can start thinking about my experiences in a meaningful way, take action, take charge, and feel much more in control of my life." Walter T. Simon, Ph.D. President- Progressive Therapy Systems"We all go through trials in life. Trials can make us bitter or better. The book Trial Tappers helps us understand and apply the principles to make us better. Hugh has gone through his own trials in life, including sexual trauma, and has become a better person because of the principles he has incorporated into his life. He is speaking from experience." Jason Webb MSW, LCSW"I appreciate that along with addressing the arena of traumas, (Hugh) gives specific tools that when followed leads the reader on a path that can, through putting in the work, result in healing." Dr. Ruth Gerritsen-McKane, LCSWThis book allows you to reflect on the success of others and find ways to apply helpful tools in your life to survive trials from health and finance to traumas from sex abuse to suicide.PRACTICAL! Stories for men and women will give you examples of how to apply each of the 12 tools in this book and lets you see examples of others that have gone thru trials or traumas and became stronger despite the challenge.UNIQUE! Each chapter teaches you how to gain a positive growth mindset with simple quotes for you to consider.CRITICAL! Thought provoking grief recovery questions makes it easier to reflect on the success of others and find ways to apply those same skills in your life.A FRESH APPROACH! The featured 12 Trial Action Paths are useful tools that lets you find practical paths to overcome past, current, or future trials. Finally, a book to help survivors gain personal growth after grief from trials like divorce, death, loss and any other trial by fire you might have experienced.This book is proof that growth is possible for anyone who is struggling under the weight of the challenges life has thrown at them and a guide to finding hope and creating lasting change. This book delivers an immersive approach to teach key lessons that will help you move out of victimhood and toward confidence and peace.Whether your trials stem from sex abuse, addiction, finances, mental or physical health, PTSD, the loss of a family member or friend from suicide this book is for you. If you want to grow stronger after any trial you face in life, find practical paths to overcome past, current, or future trials try this book.
The Pancreas
This book provides comprehensive and definitive coverage of the current understanding of the structure and function of the exocrine pancreas. While emphasis is on normal physiology, the relevant cell biological, developmental and biochemical information is also provided. Where appropriate, chapters also include material on functional changes in pancreatitis. All chapters are fully referenced and provide up to date information.The book has been overseen and published by the American Pancreatic Association with Fred S. Gorelick and John A. Williams as Editors. It includes 26 chapters written by an international group of authorities; completed chapters are also presented in open access format on the Pancreapedia (www.pancreapedia.org). The book contains full-color images and summary diagrams that enhance readability and extend the detail provided in the text.The Pancreas: Biology and Physiology is divided into four sections: Pancreatic Exocrine Structure and Function Anatomy, Bioenergetics, Cytoskeleton, Intracellular SignalingAcinar Cells Digestive enzyme synthesis, intracellular transport, Zymogen granules, ExocytosisExocrine Pancreas Integrative Responses Hormonal and Neural Control of Protein and Fluid Secretion, Molecular mechanisms of fluid and bicarbonate secretion, regulation of growth and regenerationPancreatic Islet and Stellate Cell Structure and Function Structure and vasculature of islets, regulation of islet secretion, Stellate Cells in health and diseaseThe book is designed to be a reference book for pancreas researchers but its clear and readable text will appeal to teachers, students and all individuals interested in the exocrine pancreas.
Congenital Malformations
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Second Edition
Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Second Edition presents essential insights into all aspects of this complex disease and will serve as a valuable guide to help readers provide the best possible care for their patients.Discussion by internationally recognized authorities includes: Increasing evidence that arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is not necessarily confined to the RV, but often involves both ventriclesBasic and clinical science of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathyPathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic backgroundThe mechanisms of disease progression leading to a diversity of diseasephenotypesGuidance in the clinical setting for diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy
Fixing Women
Using the tools of book history, media studies, and literary theory, Fixing Women examines the construction of a masculinist professional selfhood in male-authored midwifery textbooks during the long eighteenth-century. Ordinary birth events were cast as archetypal struggles between life and death that required the intervention of the "Hero-Accoucheur," who fought valiantly to rescue the pregnant damsel-in-distress endangered by her own body. By casting themselves as literary heroes, medical men could present themselves as altruistic, disinterested professionals. Yet under the mask of altruism and scientific curiosity lurked a self-interested, hegemonic masculinity that justified the emerging medical specialties of obstetrics and gynecology-specialties that required the homogenization of white, bourgeois women as "the Sex." By charting the development of and struggles of obstetrical discourse, Fixing Women sheds light on the gender politics of a biomedical model and practice that continues to reverberate in our own time.
Imaging for Clinical Oncology
Imaging is a critical component in the delivery of radiotherapy to patients with malignancy, and this book teaches the principles and practice of imaging specific to radiotherapy. Introductory chapters outline the basic principles of the available imaging modalities including x-rays, CT, ultrasound, MRI, nuclear medicine, and PET. Site specific chapters then cover the main tumour sites, reviewing optimal imaging techniques for diagnosis, staging, radiotherapy planning, and follow-up for each site. The important areas of radiation protection, exposure justification, and risks are also covered, exploring issues such as balancing radiation exposure with long-term risks of radiation effects, such as second cancer induction. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect current techniques, and includes two brand new chapters on imaging for radiotherapy treatment verification, and the role of specialist MRI techniques and functional imaging for radiotherapy planning. With insights from experts in each field and over 200 illustrations, this comprehensive and easy-to-read guide will be an invaluable resource for radiation oncologists, clinical oncologists, and radiotherapists, both qualified and in training. ABOUT THE SERIESRadiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in the series takes the reader through the basic principles of the use of ionizing radiation and then develops this by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks is aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as medical physics, dosimetrists, radiographers, and senior nurses.
Individualized In-Vitro Fertilization
The increasing understanding of individual differences in response to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, resulting from genetic and ethnical differences, has increased the potential for individualized treatment for patients, resulting in improved pregnancy and live-birth outcomes. This illustrated book summarizes, and provides updates on, the most recent developments in individualized infertility treatment and embryo selection techniques. Individualization is not only confined to the different steps in the ovarian stimulation process and the luteal phase support, but also to embryo selection techniques, which include, among others, the analysis of embryo development pattern and genetic testing. Chapters cover a multitude of topics, ranging from oocyte maturation and immunological testing to fertilization technique in the IVF laboratory and preparation for optimal endometrial receptivity in cryo cycles. Essential reading for IVF specialists and embryologists in IVF Clinics and also an important text for medical consultants specializing in reproductive medicine, gynecology and embryology.
Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling
Showcasing the recent progresses of the field, Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling covers the major tools and methodologies used in various areas of research.
Liver Metabolism and Fatty Liver Disease
About 30% of the general population suffers from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and the incidence of more serious fatty liver disorders increases with obesity. This volume discusses the current understanding of the development of fatty liver disease and reviews its clinical aspects. Expert contributors discuss the absorption and metabolism o
Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine for the Primary Care Practitioner
This book contains the most current information on major topics in sports science and clinical medicine and discusses key concepts related to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. This edition adds new sections on pro-inflammatory treatments, field-side acupuncture, and brief musculoskeletal ultrasound as well as a
Big Data in Radiation Oncology
This book gives readers an in-depth look into how big data is having an impact on the clinical care of cancer patients. Basic principles are covered early on, and clinical applications become the focus thereafter. A final section introduces emerging models for cancer prevention and detection.
Reproductive Medicine for the Mrcog
An authoritative account of the causes of infertility that fully explores the clinical assessment of patients and covers the decision-making behind treatment options. The content follows the MRCOG syllabus as well as delving deeper into subjects covered by the RCOG Advanced Training Skills Modules (ATSMs), leaving readers well prepared for their examinations. Written by nationally recognised leaders in the field, this volume concisely reviews contemporary clinical practice. Using an aetiology-based approach, chapters discuss ovulatory dysfunction, endometriosis, male infertility, uterine/tubal factors and unexplained infertility. The increasing use of third-party reproduction and surrogacy is explored, along with the psychosocial aspects of this type of treatment. Ethical dilemmas surrounding reproductive medicine and their management are covered in depth. With an emphasis on practical approaches to the delivery and organisation of clinical and laboratory services, readers learn how to ensure the support and care they offer is of the highest quality.
Modelling Radiotherapy Side Effects
This book provides an invaluable tutorial for radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and dosimetrists involved in the planning optimization phase of treatment. It presents a practical, accessible, and comprehensive summary of the field's current research and knowledge regarding the response of normal tissues to radiation.
Laboratory Biorisk Management
Setting the stage for a substantively different approach for managing the risks of working with biological agents in laboratories, this book defines biorisk management and explains how to implement it. The basis for this new paradigm is a three-pronged, multidisciplinary model of assessment, mitigation, and performance (the AMP model). The appli
Scintillation Dosimetry
This comprehensive book provides a detailed introduction to plastic scintillation dosimetry and its use in the field of radiation dosimetry. Comprised of chapters authored by leading experts in the medical physics community, the text discusses a broad range of state-of-the-art technical implementations, from point source dosimetry scaling to 3D-
Living Cancer: Stories from an Oncologist, Father, and Survivor
Long days, important decisions, difficult conversations. A doctor's work is never truly done. After working as a pediatric oncologist for 40 years, Dr. Michael Weiner has collected a multitude of stories. From the best case scenarios to the worst, Dr. Weiner has chosen to share some of the most memorable and heartbreaking moments of his career. Always in close contact with pain and heartbreak, his accounts express his willingness to help patients and their families through great times of need. His observations about cancer are further informed when his daughter was diagnosed with cancer as well as his own personal cancer journey.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
SPECTRUMS OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS Discover state-of-the-art research findings on ALS from leading authors and editors in the fieldIn Spectrums of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Heterogeneity, Pathogenesis & Therapeutic Directions, distinguished researchers and editors Dr. Christopher A. Shaw and Jessica R. Morrice deliver a practical and powerful perspective on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) as a heterogeneous spectrum of disorders. This increasingly accepted point-of-view allows researchers and medical professionals to develop better targeted interventions and more precise therapies.In the book, readers will find chapters on a wide variety of critical issues facing ALS researchers and healthcare practitioners treating ALS sufferers, including animal models of ALS, neuronal support cells known to have a pivotal role in ALS, and current challenges in ALS clinical trials, among others. The authors describe pathologic features common to all cases of ALS and why animal models, though crucial, should be interpreted with caution. Finally, multiple genetic and environmental etiologies of the disease are discussed.Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to ALS as a spectrum disease and the implications for models, therapeutic development and clinical trial designExplorations of the genetic basis of ALS, prospective sALS etiologies, and the involvement of microbiome in ALSDiscussions of ALS-PDC and environmental risk factors, protein aggregation in ALS, defects in RNA metabolism in ALS, and the non-cell autonomous nature of ALS and the involvement of glial cellsExaminations of animal models of ALS and perspectives on previously failed ALS therapeutics and current therapeutic strategiesPerfect for clinical neurologists, healthcare providers and caretakers, clinicians, and researchers studying motor neuron disease, Spectrums of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Heterogeneity, Pathogenesis & Therapeutic Directions is also an indispensable resource for the neurodegenerative research community, neurology residents, and graduate-level neuroscience students.
Schizophrenia, Princeton & Park Ave.
This is a true autobiographical series of stories of a retired man who first suffered from schizophrenia at fifteen. Winning scholar and athletic awards, he went on to Princeton and graduate school. He spent twenty years of his career working in the mental health field and the rest of his career in various business management roles. The book presents a variety of true disease related episodes that persisted into his sixties. It also includes his work in psychiatric programs that he founded or managed as well as his work with developing state initiatives in mental health care. Furthermore, it goes on to describe his role as a father and a successful businessman. The core themes of this work are that people with serious mental illness can and do lead successful lives. However, stigma is very real and very few of us, so afflicted with this disease, are not touched by stigma. The threat of relapse and even suicide is real, as is job loss and other life limiting events. Hope is a driving force that enabled his achievements.
Schizophrenia, Princeton & Park Ave.
This is a true autobiographical series of stories of a retired man who first suffered from schizophrenia at fifteen. Winning scholar and athletic awards, he went on to Princeton and graduate school. He spent twenty years of his career working in the mental health field and the rest of his career in various business management roles. The book presents a variety of true disease related episodes that persisted into his sixties. It also includes his work in psychiatric programs that he founded or managed as well as his work with developing state initiatives in mental health care. Furthermore, it goes on to describe his role as a father and a successful businessman. The core themes of this work are that people with serious mental illness can and do lead successful lives. However, stigma is very real and very few of us, so afflicted with this disease, are not touched by stigma. The threat of relapse and even suicide is real, as is job loss and other life limiting events. Hope is a driving force that enabled his achievements.
Practical Psychopharmacology
Despite the lack of guidance available for practitioners, extensive polypharmacy has become the primary method of treating patients with severe and chronic mood, anxiety, psychotic or behavioral disorders. This ground-breaking new book provides an overview of psychopharmacology knowledge and decision-making strategies, integrating findings from evidence-based trials with real-world clinical presentations. It adopts the approach and mind-set of a clinical investigator and reveals how prescribers can practice 'bespoke psychopharmacology', tailoring care to the individualized needs of patients. Practitioners at all levels of expertise will enhance their ability to devise rationale-based treatments, targeting manifestations of dysfunctional neural circuitry and dimensions of psychopathology that cut across conventional psychiatric diagnoses. Presented in a user-friendly, practical, full-colour layout and incorporating summary tables, bullet points, and illustrative case vignettes, it is an invaluable guide for all healthcare professionals prescribing psychotropic medications, including psychiatry specialists, primary care physicians, and advanced practice registered nurses.
Comprehensive Men's Mental Health
Although research shows that there is a silent crisis in men's mental health, there remains surprisingly little literature on the subject. This important textbook provides up-to-date, practical and evidence-based information on how mental health issues affect men and the way treatments should be offered to them. Key opinion leaders from across the globe have been brought together to offer much-needed understanding about the socio-politico-economic context of men's lives today as well as ethnic and cultural effects and genetic, epigenetic and gene-environment interaction. Clinically focused chapters cover topics such as suicide and self-harm, violence, sociopathy and substance misuse in men; depression, anxiety and related disorders; and psychotic and cognitive disorders. The book uses a lifespan approach to assessment and treatment, accounting for age and developmental phase. An invaluable source of information for clinical specialists and trainees in psychiatry, psychology, and mental health nursing as well as social workers, and occupational therapists.
Emergency Neurology
Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series, Emergency Neurology uses a case-based approach to cover challenging cases for clinicians caring for patients with urgent neurologic illnesses, addressing difficult questions of diasnosis and treatment. Each chapter provides a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to remember, and selected references for further reading. For this new edition, all cases and references have been updated, reflecting the advances in emergency neurologic care. Emergency Neurology is an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients, who are in need of timely emergency treatment. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"
Memory and Attention Adaptation Training
Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) may affect nearly half of all cancer survivors and can persist for years after completing cancer treatment. Memory and Attention Adaptation Training (MAAT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy offering evidence-based, nonpharmacological treatment of this common survivorship condition. Organized into a session-by-session Clinician Manual and related Survivor Workbook, MAAT is conducted in 8 treatment visits and has been demonstrated effective when delivered through telehealth technology, so survivors can readily fit MAAT into their busy lives. The Survivor Workbook starts with a brief overview of what is understood about CRCI, common problems, and how MAAT helps. The introduction is followed by the 8 visits summarized in concise chapters that allow for easy review after the therapy visit. Thus, survivors with memory problems have a reliable source to turn to so that content of visits is not forgotten. Each visit consists of homework exercises with easy to follow forms.
The New Addiction Treatment
Addiction is the United States' most pervasive and damaging public health problem, yet most Americans receive care that results in a failure rate that is both astronomically high and shielded from public view. The New Addiction Treatment examines the current state of the addiction treatment business and explores the reasons why (unlike those for all other behavioral, psychological, or neurological disorders) the treatment of addiction has been stagnant and little improved since the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. After describing the size and scope of the problem and examining actual recovery rates for those who undergo treatment, David A. Patterson Silver Wolf asserts that there are effectively two kinds of treatment regimes in the United States: those that medical doctors receive, and those for the rest of us. The former has about an 80% success rate, the latter about an 80% failure rate. Drawing from his own experience as a former patient and person in long-term recovery, as well as his 22 years as a clinician, professor, and researcher, Patterson Silver Wolf describes many of the impediments to effective treatment today. This book offers a plausible and cost-effective way to disrupt the dismal status quo and realistically aspire to a higher success rate for everyone who receives professional help for a substance use disorder.
Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures
Religiosity and spirituality (R/S) represent a very important factor of daily life for many individuals across different cultures and contexts. It is associated with lower rates of depression, suicide, mortality, and substance abuse, and is positively correlated with well-being and quality of life. Despite growing academic recognition and scientific literature on these connections this knowledge has not been translated into clinical practice. Part of the expanding Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures is a timely exploration of the implications of R/S on mental health. Written and edited by 38 experts in the fields of spirituality and mental health from 11 countries, covering a wide range of cultural and geographical perspectives, this unique resource assesses how mental health relates to world religions, agnosticism, atheism, and spiritualism unaffiliated with organised religion, with a practical touch. Across 25 chapters, this resource provides readers with a succinct and trustworthy review of the latest research and how this can be applied to clinical care. The first section covers the principles and fundamental questions that relate science, history, philosophy, neuroscience, religion, and spirituality with mental health. The second section discusses the main beliefs and practices related to world religions and their implications to mental health. The third reviews the impact of R/S on specific clinical situations and offers practical guidance on how to handle these appropriately, such as practical suggestions for assessing and integrating R/S in personal history anamnesis or psychotherapy.
Live or Die
This book is written for you. Its a story that is your story. It is a wise and witty story of 20-plus years of work with medical professionals, hospitals and survivors of critical illnesses around the country. It is a story of hope and practical advice for victims and survivors of any serious illness and their families. And it is about life and values that grew with each step the author took to help heal others.Mr. Burns was struck down with a Cerebral Hemorrhage and declared dead at age 38. But he amazed the medical people by regaining consciousness and eventually a life. And he made it his work to help heal others. The book is a roadmap to recovery and is a follow-up to his first book, thus the title, Live or DieAct II.
Beyond Parenting Advice
This book provides pregnant women and new parents with evidence-based information on pregnancy and parenting. Most parenting books advise pregnant women or new parents what to do and, at best, defend that advice by citing recommendations from highly selected "experts" or equally selective "studies." Some parents prefer an advice book, but an increasing number do not trust the advice they receive unless they are convinced of its scientific backing.Dr. Kramer does not tell pregnant women or new parents what they should or should not do. Instead, he focuses on controversial decision choices for which recommendations and practices differ substantially. He systematically reviews and synthesizes the available scientific evidence bearing on those choices, summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of that evidence, and translates the summaries in a way that encourages parents to make their own informed decisions. He summarizes the risks and benefits of different decision options, as well as the degree of certainty around them. The risks and benefits then need to be valued by the individual parent and balanced against the effort and financial costs incurred by the decision.Beyond Parenting Advice does not cover every conceivable topic relevant to pregnancy, infancy, and childhood. Instead, it focuses on key controversial areas with abundant but conflicting advice and information. The book's contents are organized into four sections: an initial section comprising two introductory chapters and one section each devoted to topics concerning pregnancy, infancy/toddlerhood, and childhood/adolescence. Each topic is limited to one chapter. The two introductory chapters are short but dense. They are essential, however, to understand the scientific concepts and vocabulary used in the evidence review of each topic area. After reading the two initial chapters, the rest of the book can actually be used like an encyclopedia. In other words, the reader should be able to read and understand any later chapter in the book, or even a short section from any chapter. Despite the chronological order of pregnancy and the aging child, the topic chapters in sections 2-4 could have been written, and can be read, in any order. An initial Reference Tools section provides a glossary and reproduces a diagram and two tables that define unfamiliar words and concepts.Armed with the information provided in this book, different parents will make different decisions. But those decisions will be informed decisions--not blind obedience to a book, blog, health provider, friend, family, or public health authority. Moreover, the skills that parents acquire in reading this book will help them throughout their lives in critically evaluating new information relevant to health, science, and technology.
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They Are Us
Questions and answers are at the heart of this wonderful new book by author George Edward Spain, as he recounts his fifty years work as a psychiatric social worker, mental health therapist, administrator and advocate for the mentally ill in Tennessee, and recounts colorful facts and fictions of mental hearth needs and services throughout the years.
Esoteric Psychology
The psychotic interludes which played a part in the lives of those in this medical journal were chaotic. For the sake of the grief of those who were studied, being my family members and those I love dearly, I cannot say that I fully understand schizophrenia, but in my own experiences of psychotic episodes I described grief. The paranormal consequences of those biting the bullet in the experiences of angels and demons written of in this book, chaotic but not masochistic belief systems in the family pitted against itself, the consequences of rough nature . . . these spiritual contracts showed me a bulletproof nature in my family. My dad showed me compassion and my brother showed me loving distance, loyalty and kindness. My mother showed me her grief and I adored her for it. I began to believe in the Carmelite Church. That was, until I saw what it was that spurred the creation of a medical journal.
Esoteric Psychology
The psychotic interludes which played a part in the lives of those in this medical journal were chaotic. For the sake of the grief of those who were studied, being my family members and those I love dearly, I cannot say that I fully understand schizophrenia, but in my own experiences of psychotic episodes I described grief. The paranormal consequences of those biting the bullet in the experiences of angels and demons written of in this book, chaotic but not masochistic belief systems in the family pitted against itself, the consequences of rough nature . . . these spiritual contracts showed me a bulletproof nature in my family. My dad showed me compassion and my brother showed me loving distance, loyalty and kindness. My mother showed me her grief and I adored her for it. I began to believe in the Carmelite Church. That was, until I saw what it was that spurred the creation of a medical journal.
