Children with autism or Asperger Syndrome (AS) have difficulty understanding figurative language because they use and comprehend language literally and expect words to mean exactly what they say.
An overview of the wide variety of medical devices that are an integral part of clinical practice, this practical book includes descriptions of medical devices by both clinical specialty and purpose, thus ensuring that a wide variety of devices are included.
Autism: The Movement Sensing Perspective is the result of a collaborative effort by parents, therapists, clinicians, and researchers from all disciplines in science including physics, engineering, and applied mathematics.
This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine.
This book mainly focuses on diversity of brain diseases, such as sleep disorders, major depression disorder, anxiety disorders, epilepsy, cognitive disorders, etc.
A comprehensive overview of the associations between cannabis and mental illness, from basic sciences through to epidemiology and clinical perspectives.
This book is unique in that it provides the reader with the most up-to-date terminology used to describe the human nervous system (central and peripheral) and the related sensory organs, i.
Introduction to Pain and its relation to Nervous System Disorders provides an accessible overview of the latest developments in the science underpinning pain research, including, but not limited to, the physiological, pathological and psychological aspects.
The full power of combining experiment and theory has yet to be unleashed on studies of the neural mechanisms in the brain involved in acoustic information processing.
Offering a unique overview of a child's point of view of life with autism, this guidebook will help parents and teachers better understand how this condition is experienced in day to day life.
Microsurgery Applied to Neurosurgery focuses on microsurgical approaches to cerebrospinal lesions, including plastic surgery, suturing techniques, instruments for microsurgery, and microsurgical operations.
This second edition brings together up-to-date contributionsfrom leaders in the field internationally on the various ways in whichmitochondrial dysfunction contributes to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerativediseases, including Parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s disease and multiplesclerosis.
Das vorliegende Taschenbuch führt den Leser systematisch in die sonographische Untersuchung der hirnversorgenden Arterien ein und versucht, für die Befundbeurteilung wichtige Zusammenhänge klarzumachen.
The third edition of Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury offers a thorough revision of the popular evidence-based guide to understanding and managing all levels of traumatic brain injury.
The new edition of the highly popular, The Fractal Geometry of the Brain, reviews the most intriguing applications of fractal analysis in neuroscience with a focus on current and future potential, limits, advantages, and disadvantages.
Highly Commended at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2016The Treatment of Epilepsy, fourth edition, is a comprehensive reference and clinical guide to the pharmacological, medical and surgical options available in the treatment of epilepsy.
Psychoneuroimmunology has emerged as a discipline advancing our knowledge of the relationships among psychosocial factors, the central nervous system, the immune system, and disease.
Introduction to Deep Learning and Neural Networks with Python(TM): A Practical Guide is an intensive step-by-step guide for neuroscientists to fully understand, practice, and build neural networks.
A panel of international psychiatrists, neurologists, clinical psychologists, and neuropsychiatrists review for the clinical neurologist those aspects of psychiatry that impact the management of neurological disorders.
In this fascinating book, Jacques Balthazart presents a simple description of the biological mechanisms that are involved in the determination of sexual orientation in animals and also presumably in humans.
A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits *; Explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply ';hunters in a farmer's world'--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society *; Offers concrete non-drug methods and practices to help hunters--and their parents, teachers, and managers--embrace their differences, nurture creativity, and find success in school, at work, and at home *; Reveals how some of the world's most successful people can be labeled as ADHD hunters, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie With 10 percent of the Western world's children suspected of having Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADHD, and a growing number of adults self-diagnosing after decades of struggle, the question must be raised: How could Nature make such a ';mistake'?
The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development.
Newly revised and updated, A Textbook of Neuroanatomy, Second Edition is a concise text designed to help students easily master the anatomy and basic physiology of the nervous system.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grain Brain and his physician son explore how modern culture threatens to rewire our brains and damage our health, offering a practical plan for healing.