Sleep Medicine book

Sleep Medicine book-1

Sudhansu Chokroverty • Michel Billiard Editors 2015 A Comprehensive Guide to Its Development, Clinical Milestones, and Advances in Treatment Sleep medicine is now accepted as an independent medical specialty. Therefore, it is important for sleep specialists practicing sleep medicine to know its roots and historical evolution. Despite a remarkable progress and development of the field of sleep medicine […]

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Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health

Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health-1

Lee Baer · Mark A. Blais Editors 2010 Our intention in preparing this handbook was to provide the busy psychiatric clinician (psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psychiatric nurse or counselor) with a truly easy-to-use and practical guide to using focused assessments for improving the care of their patients. We hope we have come close to realizing this goal, and that […]

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Handbook of Behavioral Medicine

Handbook of Behavioral Medicine-1

Andrew Steptoe Editor 2010 Methods and Applications Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research was founded in 1978 as a […]

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Diagnostic Interviewing

Diagnostic Interviewing-1

Daniel L. Segal ● Michel Hersen Editors 2010 The first three editions of this book had Michel Hersen and Samuel M. Turner as its editors. A fourth edition had been talked about by the two original editors, but the untimely death of Dr. Turner intervened. Subsequently, Daniel L. Segal, a long time colleague of Michel Hersen, graciously offered […]

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Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness

Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness-1

Hoyle Leigh 2010 Toward an Integrative Model How do genes interact with the environment? How does the environment actually enter the body to affect the genes?When we perceive the environment, bits of information are encoded within the brain as memory, which consists of a series of neural connections, a brain code (see Chapter 9).When perception occurs, the new […]

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