This book introduces human motor control and neuroplasticity, explaining how the nervous system adapts to physical activity, training, and rehabilitation. Integrating research with clinical applications, it is an essential text for students, researchers, and clinicians.
Concussion Competencies from a British Perspective
This book presents essential information for people working with concussion recovery and for those currently experiencing one, especially if it is sports-related. It fills a critical knowledge gap by focusing on behavioural treatment and “active rehabilitation” strategies.
Learn how electrical pulses can make cancer treatment more efficient with fewer side effects. Successfully used with chemotherapy on over 3000 patients, this method doesn’t require high-tech resources, making it ideal for less-equipped healthcare settings.
Dr Samways Writes to the Editor
After early achievements in physics and medicine, Dr Daniel Samways’s prestigious career was thrown off course by tuberculosis. He turned to general practice, but his undiminished scientific curiosity was revealed in prolific writings that continue to resonate today.
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery combats leading causes of death. This volume discusses various aspects of CABG, with up-to-date information and practical experience from cardiovascular surgeons.
This book explores the unique medical heritage of Portugal’s National Palace of Mafra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It presents innovative studies on its collection of medical texts and items, covering topics from Paracelsan alchemy to the lives of 18th-century physicians.
Saliva is emerging as a diagnostic alternative to blood. This book provides clinicians, researchers, and students with the latest advances in saliva-diagnostics, critically reviewing biomolecules, biomarker validation, applications for systemic diseases, and key technologies.
On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment
This book investigates the scientific basis of what we think we know about healthy living. How much of the information presented as fact by the media is true? It provides a key to understanding how we can all improve our health to thrive in any phase of life.
Mishaps and medical emergencies are a risk in any dental clinic, especially when treating children. This guide provides a problem-solving approach for immediate and efficient management, ensuring every dentist can reduce complications and handle any clinical situation.
This book covers new artificial intelligence methods for medical image processing. It presents and analyzes new, more efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures aimed at increasing the accuracy of tumour detection and cancer classification, with proven results.
This book presents the spiritual foundations of occupational therapy, arguing the profession originated in existentialist philosophy and the humanist approach. The main goal of treatment is to rehabilitate the fallen spirit of the patient.
Evolution of Haematology in India
Tracing the five-decade journey of hematology in India, from a sub-specialty to a distinct discipline. It highlights the pioneers and technological breakthroughs—like CAR-T and gene therapy—that have revolutionized patient care and saved lives.
This book argues for an integrative view of depression, where mood is modulated by both central and peripheral mechanisms. Sensorimotor stimulation—via our senses and movement—can have the diametrically opposite effects of either alleviating or aggravating depression.
This book highlights the diagnostic power of inspecting the human face. Meticulous observation can provide valuable clues, revealing underlying systemic and genetic diseases. This very illustrative book is an essential guide for medical and nursing students and technicians.
This book brings together expert writings on herbal nanoproducts, covering pharmacological, clinical, safety, and regulatory aspects. It will assist researchers in capturing holistic knowledge on this intriguing subject.
How do we make rational decisions in medicine with contradictory data? This interdisciplinary book explores the scientific and ethical issues of proof, questioning the value of physicians’ experience, the relevance of data, and the reliability of biomedical knowledge.
Creative Teaching Strategies for Pre-Licensure Nursing Curricula offers teaching strategies that engage students beyond lectures. Incorporating the sciences, arts, and humanities provides a holistic approach to enhance student learning, improve outcomes, and boost satisfaction.
For students and dental professionals, this text illustrates important concepts in dental anatomy and occlusion. It presents a step-by-step wax build-up technique to guide the fabrication of dental restorations with optimal longevity, aesthetics and function.
Electroencephalogram Signal Analysis
This book assists medical diagnosis and clinical decision-making. It shows how neuronal networks and machine learning are useful for EEG signal analysis, covering epileptic cerebral activity localisation and a parallel implementation for EEG artefact rejection.
This book analyses clinical encounters through an interpreter from a new point of view. It explores the difficulties in multilingual medical communication, revealing why the risk of misunderstanding is significantly higher in trilingual than in bilingual communication.