Evidence-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Maltreated Children
Susan Timmer • Anthony Urquiza Editors 2014 Considering core components and treatment effectiveness
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Assistive Technologies for People with Diverse Abilities
Giulio E. Lancioni • Nirbhay N. Singh Editors 2014 This book examines the use of assistive technology by a variety of individuals, many of whom experience difficulties in their daily lives because of, for example, acquired brain damage, autism, communication and motor impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. The number of individuals comprising these groups is slowly […]
Continue reading →Aided Augmentative Communication for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jennifer B. Ganz 2014 This book is the sum of the past 18 years of my professional career. When I was a special education teacher, I worked with young children across a broad range of the autism spectrum – from students with social and behavioral issues who spoke fluently to those with “classic autism” traits […]
Continue reading →The Multiple Therapeutic Targets of A20
Edited by Christiane Ferran 2014 ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 809 Since its discovery as a TNF-inducible gene in endothelial cells in 1990 by Dr. Vishva Dixit’s group, the intriguing protein A20 has been the subject of more than 820 manuscripts. The general consensus after more than two decades of A20 research is that […]
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Akhlaq A. Farooqui 2014 Effect of Lifestyle, Genes, and Age Diet, exercise, and sleep play important roles in maintaining good health and longevity. Dietary components not only provide energy and building material to the body, but also have ability to prevent and protect against acute and chronic diseases associated with normal aging and age related […]
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Ekaterina Kulchavenya 2014
Continue reading →The Neuropsychology of Attention
Ronald A. Cohen 2014 Attention played a vital role in the historical development of the field of psychology. Early psychologists pondered the nature of attention and attempted to characterize its phenomenology and constituent processes.
Continue reading →Mindful Parenting
Susan Bögels • Kathleen Restifo 2014 This book and the program it offers the world are a pioneering effort to bring mindfulness into the domain of parenting and the mental health care of stressed families, for the benefit of both the children and their parents.
Continue reading →Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self
SangeethaMenon • Anindya Sinha • B.V. Sreekantan Editors 2014 Consciousness continues to be one of the more intractable problems for both the natural sciences and philosophy. A fascinating attribute of consciousness is that it is accompanied by a full-fledged, intimate, experiential self or at least a set of behavioural experiences that minimally involve a subjective […]
Continue reading →Handbook of Executive Functioning
Sam Goldstein • Jack A. Naglieri Editors 2014 In 1848, while working with Phineas Gage, a young man who miraculously survived a severe injury to his brain, physician John Martyn Harlow observed that Gage had lost the balance between his “intellectual faculties and animal propensities.” He had difficulty making plans and his loss of control […]
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