Edited by Gabriela Stoppe 2008 Dementia and related disorders affect the sufferers’ ability to perform activities of daily living and to make appropriate decisions about various issues relevant to their life. While there is no disagreement about these facts there is little clarity and even less consensus about the ways in which competence to make decisions should be assessed in daily […]
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Phil Bielby 2008
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Edited by Elissa Jelalian Ric G. Steele 2008
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Edited by Daniel Tarsy Jerrold L. Vitek Philip A. Starr Michael S. Okun 2008 Chronic deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been a rapidly evolving area of neurotherapeutics since its initial introduction for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor in the 1990s. For these conditions, DBS is now considered accepted therapy for patients failing to adequately respond […]
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Edited by Patricio O’Donnell 2008 The genetics of schizophrenia have taken the driver seat in the research related to this disorder in recent years. For a long time, it had been known that sharing genes with someone affected with schizophrenia conferred a 50% chance of acquiring the disease.
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Attila Köfalvi Editor 2008
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Edited by W.-T. Chiu, M.-C. Kao, C.-C. Hung, S.-Z. Lin, H.-J. Chen, S. F. T. Tang, B. Hoffer, Y.-H. Chiang 2008 Neurosurgery treatment is being transformed towards functional recovery, which is the goal of “Reconstructive Neurosurgery”. Initially electro-stimulation was applied to modulate disrupted central nervous system function.
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Edited by S. Hossein Fatemi Paula J. Clayton 2008 Nearly 14 years have elapsed since the second edition of this book was published. George Winokur pioneered the early editions of this book and contributed significantly to the scientific value of this book by recruiting first-class psychiatrists аnd neuroscientists to contribute.
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Michael S. Ritsner • Abraham Weizman Editors 2008 Novel Strategies for Research and Treatment Over the past few decades the involvement of neurosteroids in brain function and mental health has attracted much interest, not only from a neuroscience perspective, but also from clinical and therapeutic aspects. In recent years, much of the research has focused on the multifunctional […]
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Edited by Joseph F. Audette Allison Bailey 2008 The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management The field of Pain Medicine has evolved over the last 20 years to include an increasing array of sophisticated and technologically complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Concurrent to this advancement has been the development of a battery of […]
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