Our Self-Organized Brains
This book describes the dynamic nature of the brain and how it learns. Using a systemic approach to neuroscience, it introduces concepts of feedback control and self-organized systems in plain language for a holistic understanding of the human learning process.
Ethics in Child Health
How do you approach the tough ethical dilemmas in child health? This concise, practical case-based workbook helps healthcare professionals and students critically think about ethical problems through interactive case studies and thought-provoking discussions.
For decades, testosterone has been surrounded by dark rumors. However, recent research shows past data on side effects is inaccurate. This book reveals how testosterone therapy benefits vital body functions far beyond libido, and explores its innovative new applications.
With no approved drug for Autism, this book presents a novel approach validated by brain imaging and large clinical trials. It details a repurposed drug’s unprecedented potential to be the first pediatric treatment, describing specific cases of children who improved.
Zoonoses and Public Health
This book follows the One Health approach to zoonotic diseases, focusing on the main parasites transmitted from animals to humans. With contributions from renowned researchers, it covers key aspects like epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control.
Healthy nutrition is critical to the body’s self-defense. This book covers calculating daily nutritional needs, energy balance, restoring healthy body weight, treating food intolerance, and using food supplements and ergogenic aids in sport.
This volume argues that key aspects of Old English poetry continued into Middle English romances like King Horn and Athelston. It reveals the surprising afterlife of Old English culture, uncovering unexpected links between Saracens, Vikings, and the Anglo-Saxon past.
Oral Infections and Systemic Diseases
Oral infections can affect your general health. This book gives an overview of the scientific evidence for linkages between oral infections and systemic diseases. It also provides a short overview of oral infections and symptoms that are due to systemic diseases.
Acetylcholine is a universal messenger, from bacteria to humans. While best known as a neurotransmitter, our understanding of its action has completely changed. This book explores its vital physiological and toxicological importance, since it can be perturbed by many substances.
Survival after Treatment for Gynaecological Cancer
As gynaecological cancer survival rates improve, quality of life after treatment is vital. This is the first textbook on managing the physical and psychological effects of treatment. It is essential reading for gynaecological oncology specialists and related disciplines.
An Introduction to Nutritional Medicine
Charles Darwin meets Hippocrates, the father of medicine. In this imagined dialogue, the two great thinkers provide a useful introduction to nutritional medicine, tackling controversial topics like supplements, probiotics, and how to define “junk food.”
The Importance of Becoming a Medical Educator
A medical degree alone is not enough to make an effective educator. This book gives doctors the understanding and tools they need to better teach their students, colleagues, and patients by addressing topics like adult learning theory, motivation, and teacher assessment.
This book explains the scientific rationale for focusing on the mechanisms of hypertension, a pathology difficult to treat effectively with current methods. It will appeal to medical students, researchers, and professionals interested in this field.
Hepatitis C is a significant cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients. This book analyzes the “two sides of the same coin”—the benefits and adverse effects of peginterferon alpha therapy. Based on a unique national study, it raises awareness of HCV prevention.
Acute Right Heart Failure
Acute right heart failure is a complex syndrome often overlooked in research. This book covers its precursors, from normal physiology to pathology, and offers comprehensive guidance on its early assessment and management based on current clinical and experimental trials.
This book introduces a new view of agility theory, offering experimental research and theoretical knowledge on both reactive and running agility. It also details a number of agility training methods and exercises.
Neurosurgery before Science
This book traces the development of surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth century, analysing procedures like bloodletting and the myth of laudable pus. It demonstrates the profession’s resistance to new ideas, preferring accepted notions even when evidence confounds them.
The first deep dive into how social determinants of health fuel disparities for people with epilepsy. Through ground-breaking research into low-income communities, this book exposes the social and economic roots of inequity and charts a path toward health justice.
Food Safety, from Farm to Fork
This volume explores global food safety issues, presenting key findings from scientific studies. It details threats along the food chain—from pathogens, pesticides, and heavy metals to allergens—and shows how adhering to good practices is crucial in ensuring safe foods.
Health disparities in American Indians are severe and underappreciated. Edited by experts, including a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, this volume identifies the causes and solutions to this overlooked problem, with relevance for Indigenous People’s health around the world.
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