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Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors : Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
Many are addicted. Few are treated. Yet many who are not treated recover. Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors examines natural recovery as a clinical phenomenon, a field of inquiry, and a vital component of therapy. It also brings clinicians and counselors to a new understanding of addiction and recovery. One of the few books on the topic, this volume offers alternatives to disease models of addiction by exploring personal pathways to recovery. Focusing on alcohol and drug problems, it provides a literature review of 40 years of studies on self-change with particular emphasis on the current decade and methodological issues (starting with how much or how little treatment constitutes "treatment"). The 24 experts keep the coverage consistently readable, and dozens of brief narratives from individuals who have successfully recovered from an addictive behavior without formal help lend valuable personal perspectives.
Progress in Colorectal Surgery
the book also integrates recent progress in imaging techniques for the anal canal and rectum, and highlights medico-legal considerations. Aimed at current practitioners and trainees, the book discusses key concepts that will assist general surgeons and colorectal consultants in their management of patients with a broad spectrum of anorectal and colonic disorders. With a problem-oriented slant, this book is essential reading for all those with an interest in coloproctology.
Proceedings of the Medtronic Forum for Neuroscience and Neuro-Technology 2005
This volume offers research on the application of interventional neuroscience to the treatment of chronic pain and neurological disorders.
Problem-Based Behavioral Science and Psychiatry
In keeping with the growing emphasis on psychiatry in the medical school curriculum, problem-based learning (PBL) offers students a unique patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach to study and the synthesis of knowledge. The first text fully consistent with PBL models and methods, Problem-Based Behavioral Science and Psychiatry is a clinically robust resource for both the medical and the behavioral science student. Over 40 contributors, many themselves graduates of PBL medical schools, apply problem-based learning methods to specific psychiatric disorders, general clinical issues, and bedrock physician skills such as the intake interview and treatment planning.
Primary immunodeficiency diseases : Definition, diagnosis, and management
Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PID) are a group of disorders involving defects in one or more components of the immune system, and are characterized by an increased incidence of infections, autoimmunity, and malignancies. Although PID seem to be rare, the number of patients diagnosed has increased in recent years, and more than 150 different forms of PID have been identified. Nevertheless, because of inadequate medical awareness, a significant number of patients with PID are either not recognized as having a PID or are not diagnosed as early as they should be. Such delays lead to a substantial increase in morbidity and mortality among affected individuals.Our understanding of PID is improving rapidly, which will hopefully lead to more accurate diagnosis and efficient disease management. This book contains the most recent advances in the field, as well as a concise and structured review of previously identified PID. Although the book’s primary focus is on practical diagnosis and management, the pathophysiology of PID is also discussed.This book is a comprehensive yet manageable resource for physicians and nurses wishing to learn more about PID, as well as a useful tool for both doctors-in-training and specialists in clinical decision-making and treatment planning.
Primary Care Sleep Medicine : A Practical Guide
This book coming at an important time for the increasing number of patients with sleep disorders who are seen in primary care practices. The importance of primary care physicians having more in-depth education and training in sleep medicine has been emphasized in the Institute of Medicine report, “Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation—An Unmet Public Health Problem. Lack of sleep can lead to increased rates of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression, heart attack, and stroke. In addition, one-fifth of all serious car accidents are associated with driver sleepiness.
Primary Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology : A Handbook for Clinicians
Subjects covered the latest in women’s health, and updated and new material has been added on elderly patients; cardiovascular hypertension; genomic and applied molecular biology; and nutrition, obesity, and eating disorders. New case studies complement the quality information that makes this handbook a must-have reference for obstetricians, gynecologists, and all medical professionals who cater to the unique healthcare needs of women.
Prenatal autism
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition influenced by genetic, environmental, and maternal health factors during pregnancy. This study investigates the prenatal risk factors associated with ASD, including maternal stress, metabolic syndrome, exposure to pesticides and anti-epileptic drugs, and nutritional deficiencies, while also exploring evidence-based preventive measures such as a healthy maternal diet, supplementation with essential nutrients (e.g., vitamin D, iron, folic acid), and avoidance of environmental toxins.
Practitioners Guide to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
This book is to help clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatrists and counselors achieve the maximum in service to their clients. Designed to bring ready answers from scientific data to real life practice, The guide is an accessible, authoritative reference for today's clinician.
Practitioner’s Guide to Emotion Regulation in School-Aged Children
In this volume, variables that contribute to emotional regulation are identified, complex relationships between emotions, stress, and temperament are explored, and challenges to competence at school (e.g., test anxiety, bullying) and at home (e.g., punishment for "wrong" emotions) are examined. Strategies for recognizing specific skill deficiencies or more general needs are provided, along with emotion coaching techniques, cognitive-behavioral methods, anger management programs, empathy training, and other interventions. Dozens of worksheets and handouts included in the book can be reproduced or fine-tuned to fit age and ability levels.
Practicing Neurology : What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do
In this new edition, Practicing Neurology: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do, the latest volume from our Current Clinical Neurology™ series, Rahman Pourmand takes readers through the process of treating neurological conditions from evaluation to emergencies. For each condition, Pourmand provides basic facts, key definitions, step-by-step instructions for conducting a concise physical examination, neurologic signs to watch for, treatment strategies, and the prognosis. In Part I, the author outlines neurological history and examination, highlighting some common neurological constructs while elucidating the most up-to-date neurodiagnostic tests and procedures. Part II details common neurological conditions including stroke, seizure and epilepsy, central nervous system infections, complications from alcohol, dizziness and vertigo, headaches, sleep disorders, and back and neck pain. In Part III, neurological urgencies and emergencies, such as comas, status epilepticus, brain edema, transtentorial herniation, metastatic epidural spinal cord compression, acute meningitis, delirium tremens, Wernicke's encephalopathy, myastenia gravis crisis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, and temporal arteritis are covered in detail.
Post-traumatic stress disorder among university students after the 2023 earthquake in Syria
Earthquakes are considered among the most devastating natural disasters, and are associated with increased prevalence of psychiatric disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been found to be the most prevalent psychiatric disorder after an earthquake. The aim of this project was to investigate the prevalence of PTSD and related risk factors among university students in Syria after the earthquake in 2023.
Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a wide spread disorder influence human life value and their production this disorder had many classifications before it has a specific classification and definition and the PTSD diagnosis was described in DSM III. Many studies have done to compute PTSD patients around the world including Syria especially after the recent war. PTSD differentiates into five types separated through several parameters. Trauma could immerge from many life events and because of that the development of PTSD engaged to many causes, while some of these trauma’s events can develop dissociation disorder in patients had PTSD.
Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders
This disorder transcends multiple disciplines and demands a team approach to improve knowledge and treatment. The highly experienced internationally recognized authors have updated every section and added many new chapters, including some on genetic abnormalities in virus and host seen in PTLDs. In this successor edition, there is a completely new section on PTLDs after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The newest PTLD classifications and current treatment paradigms that reflect recently conducted international trials are fully incorporated. As technologies have advanced, this book provided state-of-the-art new diagnostic and prognostic information.
Polycystic ovary syndrome and using topical spironolactone
PCOS is very common endocrine and metabolic disorders with involvement of both genetic and environmental affect women in reproductive age. Like insulin resistance, having family history of close relative affected by pcos, exposure to certain chemicals and idiopathic causes. Symptoms include amnenorrhea, hirsutism, infertility, obesity, acne and androgenic alopecia. PCOS can affect self esteem, mental health, quality of life, PCOS can treated either medically or by life style modification. PCOS equivalent in male is endocrine disorder similar to pcos occure in males relatives of women with pcos caracterize by premature alopecia before 30 years of age.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome : Current Controversies, From The Ovary To The Pancreas
All four editors of this title are extremely prominent in the field of PCOS. Although they are all U.S.-based, they are internationally renowned. The book includes the latest diagnostic criteria for PCOS, and comprises the most up to date information about the genetic features and pathogenesis of PCOS. The diagnostic criteria for PCOS took shape in 1990 following an NIH conference co-organized by Dr. Dunaif, resulting in her classic volume, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (1992). That title recommended diagnostic criteria of hyperandrogenism and chronic anovlulation with the exclusion of specific disorder of the ovary, adrenal, and pituitary. These criteria dominated the field but were revised in 2003 by a working group of international experts at a conference in Rotterdam. Since then, it has become increasingly clear over the past several years that PCOS is a complex genetic disease resulting from the interaction of susceptibility genes and environmental factors.
Polycystic ovaries syndrome and inositol supplements
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a very common, complex, and heterogeneous endocrine disorder of women that involves a combination of epigenetic and genetic factors. PCOS affects women of growing age particularly at the early to late reproductive stage (15–44 years). Currently, PCOS impacts 1 in every 10 women worldwide. It is characterized majorly by a raised level of androgens such as testosterone and a large number of ovarian cysts (more than 10) that cause anovulation, infertility, and irregular menstrual cycle...
Platelet Function : Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Platelet function, or clot formation, is difficult to assess, but extremely important because inadvertent or excessive platelet activation underlies many common cardiovascular disorders, such as myocardial infarction, unstable angina, and stroke. In Platelet Function: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment, a panel of leading researchers and clinicians review the latest findings on the complexities of platelet function and the various means of inhibiting platelet clot formation. The authors delineate an up-to-date picture of platelet biology and describe methods for assessing platelet function, including the commonly used platelet aggregation, thromboxane production, procoagulant function, platelet function under flow, and the expression of platelet activation markers. The focus is both on the technology and the outcome of research on platelets, including the fast developing fields of proteomics and genomics and their application to platelet research. The clinical applications of the various methods for the assessment of platelet function in vivo, as well as antiplatelet therapy, are fully discussed.
Physics of Zero- and One-Dimensional Nanoscopic Systems
In recent years submicron and nanoscale systems have featured strongly on the research agenda due to the technological progress and new physics that have emerged from studies of ultra-small systems. A fundamental understanding of basic physical phenomena on the mesoscopic and nanoscopic scales is required to exploit the technological potential offered by these exotic materials. The present book contains review-like chapters by some of the leading experts in the field, covering topics such as the Kondo effect, electron transport, disorder and quantum coherence with electron-electron interaction, persistent current, thermoelectric phenomena, etc. in quantum dots, quantum wires, carbon nanotubes and more. This book will be valuable to researchers and students in condensed matter physics.
Physicians Guide to the Treatment and Follow-Up of Metabolic Diseases
Until the mid-twentieth century, hereditary metabolic and other genetic diseases were considered to be purely “genetic” problems. Destiny would take its course, treatment did not exist, and genetic counseling about recurrence risks was virtually all that could be offered. Phenylketonuria (PKU) was then shown to be a treatable genetic disease in which early diagnosis and effective treatment prevented the disease (mental retardation) in PKU. Other genetic diseases for which an environmental experience was an essential component of cause (e. g. , exposure to a dietary component or a drug) were then seen to yield to treatment.
