Monoamine oxidase plays a major role in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric disorders including depressive illness, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Based on two decades of research in Brazil and the UK, this book explores the ways in which intersections of gender, race and class affect the positioning of the subject as 'Other' in discourses of health, and how the positioning of the subject as 'Other' has implications for health research and mental health practice.
Updated for todays health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population.
Coma and Disorders of Consciousness, 3e is a fully revised new edition offering a comprehensive review of the field for clinicians and researchers in the field of disorders of consciousness.
This full-color clinicians manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention.
Essstörungen und Adipositas: Beide Störungsbilder haben eine zunehmende Prävalenz und führen zu schwerwiegenden gesundheitlichen Problemen, wenn nicht gar zum Tod.
The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
Professionelle Hilfestellungen für junge FamilienNeueste Forschungsergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus der PraxisAktualität: Unsere Welt ist geprägt durch verschiedenste KrisenMit einem Geleitwort von Karl Heinz BrischUnsere Zeit ist von globalen Krisen, gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und Umbrüchen geprägt, die auch den Lebensbeginn beeinflussen.
Substance Use Disorders provides an overview of substance misuse and addresses the neurobiology, pharmacotherapy, and behavioural therapy management of substance use disorders from a clinical perspective.
Personality disorders are highly prevalent and cause a substantial amount of human suffering and harm-not only to the individuals and families directly affected, but also to the population at large.
New edition of the Narrative Exposure Therapy manual, an effective, short-term, culturally universal intervention for trauma victims - including the latest insights and new treatments for dissociation and social pain.
Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies.
Underestimated, under-researched, and often poorly understood, the body-focused repetitive disorders nevertheless cause human suffering that is serious, persistent, and pervasive.
Counseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family.
Originally published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of mental health policy and practice in the USA during the latter part of the 20th Century by focussing on 3 main themes: political-economic structures, the pitfalls of professionalism and institutional obstacles to adequate care.
This volume gives an overview of new insights to alcohol pharmacology using DREADDs (Designer Receptors and Unraveling the Neuropharmacology of Alcohol).
This important book describes the effects of a range of medical, psychological, and neurological conditions on brain functioning, specifically cognition.
The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions.
It is particularly gratifying to prepare a second edition of a book, because there is the necessary impli- cation that the first edition was well received.
Thomas Salmon fut un médecin visionnaire, précurseur de l’idée de trouble post-traumatique et de la prise en charge des névroses de guerre et du stress.
This volume aims to explain why, despite profound advances in psychological science and neuroscientific analyses of schizophrenia, outcomes for the disorder have changed little over the past 100 years.
Laboratory medicine is a complex and changing field, and for the busy clinician, it is difficult to maintain an adequate working knowledge of current concepts and practices in this area -- although this information is essential to excellent patient care.
Dieses Buch untersucht Narzissmus als klinisches und gesellschaftliches Phänomen im Zeitalter von Internet und Social Media sowie dessen Auswirkungen auf Liebesbeziehungen, Sexualität, Freundschaft, Familie und auch Politik.
This handbook reviews promising applications of psychedelics in treatment of such challenging psychiatric problems as posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, substance use disorders, and end-of-life anxiety.
The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme'- Educational Book ReviewThis ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children.
Over the past decade, forensic psychology has grown rapidly as a subject, with an increasing number of forensic psychologists working in demanding roles in prisons, secure training facilities, and high, medium and low security healthcare facilities as well as other parts of the criminal justice system.
In psychiatry, as in all of medicine, clinicians are frequently involved in training students and residents yet few have themselves been trained in pedagogy.
Der Einsatz von Ergotherapie in der Psychiatrie hat sich seit langem bewährt, um verlorengegangene Fertigkeiten wiederzuerlangen, neue Potenziale zu entdecken und die Wiedereingliederung in die Gesellschaft vorzubereiten.
This new, and heavily revised, edition of Psychopharmacology, provides a comprehensive scientific study of the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior.
Betreutes Wohnen ist eine Wohn- und Versorgungsform für ältere Menschen, die ein selbständiges Leben auch bei entstehendem Unterstützungsbedarf ermöglichen soll.
Psychiatry in Practice: Education, Experience, and Expertise provides detailed advice and useful tips for early career psychiatrists, and all others who wish to enhance their practical psychiatry skills.