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The Nourished Brain: The Latest Science On Food's Power For Protecting The Brain From Alzheimers and Dementia - Paperback

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by Cheryl Mussatto Rd LD (Author)Worldwide, up to 50 million people and their families are living with some form of the degenerative and irreversible disease of Alzheimer's. By 2030, this number is expected to rise to a staggering 76 million people globally who will be living with this condition. At this time, there is no cure. Many families have asked, "Is there something that could have been done to prevent or slow down Alzheimer's disease?" Written by a Registered Dietitian who witnessed t...

Abstract Concepts and the Embodied Mind: Rethinking Grounded Cognition - Hardcover

$157.32

by Guy Dove (Author)Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the dogs, and how we are going to survive our next visit with our family, we need to know something about locations, keys, cooking, dogs, survival, families, and so on. As researchers have sought to explain how our brains can store and access such general knowledge, a growing body of evidence suggests ...

Chemotaxis Modeling of Autoimmune Inflammation: PDE Computer Analysis in R - Hardcover

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by William Schiesser (Author)In response to an infection (e.g., from pathogens such as bacteria and viruses), the immune system can deplete macrophages (specialized white blood cells) and produce cytokines that are pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory. This counterproductive autoimmune response is represented mathematically as nonlinear chemotaxis diffusion. This book is directed to the computer-based modeling of chemotaxis inflammation. The spatiotemporal analysis is based on a model of thr...

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Princeton Review MCAT Biochemistry Review, 2nd Edition: Complete Content Prep + Practice Tests - Paperback

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by The Princeton Review (Author)IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. The Princeton Review's MCAT(R) Biochemistry Review brings you everything you need to ace the biochem concepts found on the MCAT, including thorough subject reviews, example practice questions with step-by-step explanations, hundreds of practice problems, and 3 full-length practice tests. Inside this book, you'll find proven strategies for tackling and overcoming challenging questions, along with all the practice you need ...

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Forensic Chemistry of Substance Misuse: A Guide to Drug Control - Hardcover

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by Leslie A. King (Author)Updating and expanding the coverage of the first Edition, this book provides a chemical background to domestic and international controls on substances of misuse. In the United Kingdom, structure-specific (generic) controls have been further developed in the past 13 years and now cover 17 groups of compounds. The focus of those controls has been on new psychoactive substances (NPS). Since 1997, over 800 NPS have been reported to the European Monitoring Centre for Dru...

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by Kathryn T. Hall (Author)The biological power of the placebo effect. The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the intervention being tested. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge se...

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by Robin Cook (Author)El maestro del thriller médico vuelve con una explosiva novela sobre un virus mortal y sus oscuros orígenes. Cuando una joven aparentemente sana se desploma de repente en el metro de Nueva York y muere al llegar al hospital, su caso es atribuido a una agresiva variante de la gripe. Hasta que acaba sobre la mesa de autopsias del veterano médico forense Jack Stapleton, quien descubre unas sorprendentes anomalías: la joven había sufrido un trasplante de corazón y, además, s...

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How Your Brain Works: Neuroscience Experiments for Everyone - Paperback

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by Greg Gage (Author), Tim Marzullo (Author)Discover the hidden electrical world inside your nervous system using DIY, hands-on experiments, for all ages. No MD or PhD required! The workings of the brain are mysterious: What are neural signals? What do they mean? How do our senses really sense? How does our brain control our movements? What happens when we meditate? Techniques to record signals from living brains were once thought to be the realm of advanced university labs . . . but not anym...

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Bones and Joints: A Guide for Students - Paperback

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by James Harcus (Author)Now in its eighth edition, this highly respected core textbook is essential reading for all healthcare students learning about the bones and joints of the body. The information is logically ordered and easy to read; comprehensive enough for students and health professionals alike, but not so dense as to be overwhelming. It covers the normal structure of bones and joints and goes on to provide an introduction to common fractures and pathology and how they appear on imag...

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Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World - Paperback

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by Nina Kraus (Author)How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on--we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes--and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kra...

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Career Opportunities in Clinical Drug Research - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Jane Anderson (Author) Number of Pages: 279 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 26, 2010

The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop: A Handbook for Professionals - Paperback

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by Rose Redding Mersky (Author)The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop is a pioneering, practical guide for professionals who work with people going through major life transitions, such as career change, relocation or bereavement. These transitions can evoke enormous feelings of uncertainty and are times of vivid dreaming. Social Dream-Drawing is a highly effective method of group work that mobilizes the dream's enormous capacity to help us adapt to life, whatever challenges it throws at us. This u...

Resilience and Well-Being for Dental Professionals - Paperback

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by Mahrukh Khwaja (Author)Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals Essential reading for dental professionals and other healthcare workers wanting to build emotional resilience and positive mental health Dentistry is a high-stress profession with elevated rates of anxiety, depression, burnout, suicidal thoughts and self-harm. Chronic workplace stress is a growing concern as it can severely damage the mental health of dental professionals and negatively impact their ability to provid...

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Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy - Paperback

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by Heather Kuhaneck (Author), Susan L. Spitzer (Author)At the heart of Making Play Just Right: Unleashing the Power of Play in Occupational Therapy is the belief that pediatric occupational therapy is most effective when it incorporates play. The Second Edition is a unique resource that provides the background, history, evidence, and general knowledge needed to use a playful approach in pediatric occupational therapy. Specific examples help therapists use activity analysis with professional r...

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Foundations in Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care - Paperback

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by Teresa A. Volsko (Author), Sherry Barnhart (Author)Advances in respiratory care over the past years have made a significant impact on the health and well-being of infants, children, and their families. Designed to be the primary text for the 'Neonatal and Pediatric' course as part of the respiratory care core curriculum, Foundations in Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care provides students and practitioners alike with a comprehensive yet reader-friendly resource. In this second edition,...

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by Jason C. Gallagher (Author), Conan Macdougall (Author)"This book focuses on key points of basic microbiology and antimicrobial pharmacotherapy and organizes them into a concise guide ... must-have antimicrobial reference guide for all medical and pharmacy students." - Lindsay McDonnell, PharmD for Doody's Review Service Antibiotics Simplified, Fifth Edition is a best-selling, succinct guide designed to bridge knowledge gained in basic sciences courses with clinical practice in infectious d...

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The Healthcare Labyrinth: A Guide to Navigating Health Plans and Fixing American Health Insurance - Hardcover

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by Marc S. Ryan (Author)The Healthcare Labyrinth is not just a comprehensive guide to navigating health plans--it offers a blueprint for fixing our broken healthcare system.The American health insurance system is anything but simple to maneuver. Health plan enrollees become entangled in an intricate and opaque maze of confusion, often resulting in frustration, regret, and deep debt.In The Healthcare Labyrinth, health plan and healthcare technology veteran Marc S. Ryan seeks to demystify the U...

Pluck: Lessons We Learned for Improving Healthcare and the World - Hardcover

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by Alfred Sadler (Author), Blair Sadler (Author)Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and actions.Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of th...

Understanding Statistics in Medicine: Basic concepts for those who read, write, edit, or review the medical literature - Paperback

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by Tom Lang (Author), Donna Stroup (Author), Michelle Secic (Author)"Understanding Statistics in Medicine" is a companion volume to Tom and Michelle's "How to Report Statistics in Medicine," which is a comprehensive set of guidelines for documenting research and statistical methods in the medical literature. Understanding Statistics reflects Tom and Donna's separate experience in teaching the topics for many years, as well as the course on statistical reporting they teach on the University of...

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Waverly Hills Sanatorium: A History - Paperback

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by Lynn Pohl (Author)High on a hill on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, a massive Tudor Gothic Revival building still stands as a testament to past struggles with a deadly disease. The structure was once part of the sprawling complex of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, established in 1910 for the treatment of tuberculosis. Waverly Hills expanded rapidly, with racially segregated facilities housing up to five hundred patients a day by World War II before new medical developments led to the ins...

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Diagnostic Radiology Physics with Matlab(r): A Problem-Solving Approach - Paperback

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by Johan Helmenkamp (Editor), Robert Bujila (Editor), Gavin Poludniowski (Editor)Imaging modalities in radiology produce ever-increasing amounts of data which need to be displayed, optimized, analyzed and archived: a "big data" as well as an "image processing" problem. Computer programming skills are rarely emphasized during the education and training of medical physicists, meaning that many individuals enter the workplace without the ability to efficiently solve many real-world clinical prob...

Making Sense of Evidence-Based Practice for Nursing: An Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Systematic Reviews - Paperback

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by Debra Evans (Author)This straightforward guide to evidence-based practice helps you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge practice that is not underpinned by research and to increase your understanding of the processes involved in accessing, appraising, and synthesizing good quality research.Providing a basic introduction to both quantitative and qualitative research, Debra Evans explores how to find out "what works best", the impact of something, and what requires mor...

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by D. R. Wright (Author)A mid-forties momma just trying to get through life without sticking her leg to the shower wall. Snippets of thoughts from a family doctor trying to successfully manage the daily pressures of family and career, while navigating the world of online purchases, Covid setbacks, and trying to keep herself mentally and physically well without dislodging a joint. Fair WarningDO NOT read this book while1) Drinking super hot liquids (or any liquids you would not want touching ...

Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague - Hardcover

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by Samuel Weber (Author)A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague tales Many are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have addressed a pressing question that precedes and is the foundation of their writings: How does the very act of narrating the pandemic offer strategies to confront and contend with...

Scoliosis Does Not Hurt: A healthcare journey - Paperback

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by June Parker (Author)A healthcare journey of lies and indifference: A mother's account of her journey through the healthcare system while trying to determine her daughter's medical issues, including scoliosis. The book is a true story of what transpired and the devastating effect on a young girl's life. The insensitivity of many in the healthcare field only added unnecessary suffering to the family's experience. Why did they have to lie? Why are they not listening to our children? Why do fa...

Scissor skills activity book for kids ages 3-5: Scissor activities for toddlers 3-5 years Kindergarten workbook for kids Occupational therapy activiti - Paperback

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by Burgo Italia (Author)Scissor skills are an under-rated area of development for which many parents and educators are unprepared.Postural stability, hand strength and dexterity, hand-eye coordination, bilateral integration, sensory integration, sequencing, rhythm, and attention are all required for effective scissor use.These skills are required for both play and learning to be successful. Cutting with scissors has a number of advantages, including: Each finger moves independently. Strenght...

Fuck Cancer: Meditation Coloring Book, More 50 Design Wonderful Animals, An Adult Coloring Book for Cancer patients, Relaxing, Medi - Paperback

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by Bill Haney (Author)A coloring book is a stress reliever for cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.Features of this Book More Than 50 Wonderful Animals Design, stress-relieving designs pages for meditation or relaxing. It measures 8.5x11 inches 108 Pages with book industry-perfect binding, a sturdy matte cover, and white pages that are great for pencil, crayon, gel pens, or markers. Designs are printed only on one side of each sheet of paper to prevent bleed-through. Number of Pages:...

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The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth - Hardcover

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by Jeremy A. Greene (Author)This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive. The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for--and skepticism of--electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the "electr...

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Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals - Hardcover

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by Lesley a. Jacobs (Editor), Yoshitaka Wada (Editor), Ilan Vertinsky (Editor)How three major Asian countries approach global health security. The COVID-19 pandemic has put a newfound emphasis on the importance of global health security: the idea that countries must coordinate their efforts globally to address pressing international public health threats while meeting their own specific domestic health care needs. Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India investigates how this approa...

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The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines - Paperback

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by Cassandra Leah Quave (Author)The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist's quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. "A fascinating and deeply personal journey." --Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken BotanistTraveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in...

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Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do - Paperback

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by Antonio C. Bianco MD (Author)In this primer for patients, their families, and their doctors, a leading physician and scientist explains why the standard treatment for hypothyroidism fails many--and offers an empowering call for change. Hypothyroidism, also commonly referred to as Hashimoto's disease, affects millions in the United States alone. It occurs when the thyroid--the butterfly-shaped gland that sits in your neck right above the front of your shirt collar--malfunctions or after th...

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Teen Mental Health: An Encyclopedia of Issues and Solutions - Hardcover

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by Len Sperry (Editor)This encyclopedia provides a concise introduction to the mental health topics of greatest concern to adolescents. It offers young readers the information they need to better understand mental disorders and the importance of psychological well-being. Addressing mental illness and prioritizing psychological well-being are important at any age, but the teen years present unique challenges. Hormonal changes, peer pressure, and the demands of school and a busy social life com...