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Prenatal Diagnosis
The human side
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book evolved out of a conference which was held because of our conviction that prenatal screening and diagnostic techniques provide carers with a two-edged sword which can do both good and harm - often at the same time to the same person. The conference ('The Human Side of Prenatal Diagnosis')...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The underlying theme of this book the role of experience in the development of the nervous system. It is now widely acknowledged that there are a variety of organi- environment interactions that guide the development of the nervous system. The popular press has also picked up on this theme and parents...
Food, Eating and Obesity
The psychobiological basis of appetite and weight control
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Although the exact prevalence of overweight and obesity are dependent upon the definition used, these conditions are generally accepted to be widespread and increasing problems by health authorities and the public in most western nations. The proportion of the UK and US populations which are overweight...
Future Orientation
Developmental and Ecological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
By contemporary I mean a present with an anticipated future, for we must do our best to overcome clinical habits which make us assume that we have done our part if we have clari?ed the past. (Erikson, 1968, pp. 30–31). The scope of time ahead which in?uences present behavior, and is therefore to...
Challenges of Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Psychoanalysis, Health, and Psychosexuality in the Era of Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During discussion of psychoanalysis and virtual reality in the new millennium, it was predicted that in the next century the differences between the conscious, unconscious, and the pre-conscious will have to be reconsidered in view of the ever-expanding concepts created by virtual reality. There will...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The 9th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine expresses the continuity in the effort to gain scientific knowledge of hypnosis and scientific status for it, ever since the 1st International Congress for Experimental and Therapeutic Hypnotism was held in Paris in 1889, attended...
The Changing Composition of the Workforce
Implications for Future Research and Its Application
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Annual Scientist-Practitioner Conferences in Industrial Organizational Psychology were conceived by the Department of Psychology at Old Dominion University as a means to foster exchange of information, points of view, and insights among those who are engaged in research in the behavioral and...
Parent-Child Interaction
The Socialization Process Observed in Twin and Singleton Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This work is largely based on what has been a mammoth-one person called it a "heroic" -research project. Both fieldwork and data analyses were laborious and time-consuming, and the work could not have come to fruition without the cooperation of many people. Above all, I owe a debt of gratitude...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
An important component of Division TEACCH's mandate from the Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the North Carolina State Legislature is to conduct research aimed toward improving the understanding of developmental disabilities such as autism and to...
by Yu. M. Sheinmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is a pleasure to any author to enlarge the circle of his readers. Naturally this is a pleasure to me. At the same time, however, misgivings arise: whether these pages will con vey to the circle of new readers the thoughts that excite the author. Science is advancing rapidly in our day. It is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The present volume in our series, Human Behavior and Environment, is devoted to a specific topic, continuing the pattern established in the last two volumes. The current theme is behavioral science aspects of trans portation. This topic was chosen to exemplify a problem area of practical import...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The theme of the present volume concerns people' s response to the natural environment, considered at scales varying from that of a house hold plant to that of vast wilderness areas. Our decision to focus on this particular segment of the physical environment was prompted in part by the intrinsic...
by Elizabeth M. McDowell, Theodore F. Beals
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Biopsy Pathology of the Bronchi is intended to provide the practicing pathologist with a convenient source of diagnostic information, combined with pertinent clinical patterns and a background of histogenesis. It is hoped that the book will facilitate the accuracy of diagnosis, minimize pitfalls of...
Serodiagnosis of the Infectious Diseases
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Among the several modes of diagnostic testing for infections, serological (i.e. antibody determination) studies are still heavily used. Serodiagnosis of the Infectious Diseases examines this topic in a contemporary context, and in so doing utilizes serodiagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection...