| Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis Posted: 06 Feb 2008 06:12 AM CST  Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 236 Publication Date: 2007-09-26 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 8847003903 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9788847003903 Binding: Hardcover Book Description: In multiple sclerosis (MS), conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) has proved to be a valuable tool to increase diagnostic confidence and for monitoring the efficacy of experimental treatment. However, cMRI has limited specificity and accuracy of cMRI to the most disabling aspects of the MS pathology, known to occur in and outside macroscopic lesions. Modern quantitative MR techniques have the potential to overcome the limitations of cMRI, and their application is changing dramatically our understanding of how MS causes irreversible disability. In detail, there is an increasing body of MR evidence that MS is not only a white matter disease and does not only cause focal lesions, as well as that neurodegeneration is an important aspect of the disease (since the earliest clinical phases), which is only partially related to inflammatory changes. There is also increasing perception that modern MR methodologies should be more extensively employed in clinical trials to derive innovative information. Download
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| Orthopedic Traumatology - A Resident's Guide Posted: 06 Feb 2008 06:11 AM CST  Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 640 Publication Date: 2008-03 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540758607 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540758600 Binding: Paperback Book Description: There has been very rapid development in computing in recent years and this is now a general trend in the field of orthopedics. Orthopedic trauma is no exception, as there is much enthusiasm surrounding the use of surgical navigation in musculoskeletal trauma. In light of these developments, the successful first edition of this book has been revised and updated. A lot of new information has been added to the original chapter on CAOS (computer-aided orthopedic surgery). Also, as the WHO has published new guidelines on osteoporosis management, together with the many conceptual changes in this area, adding a chapter on osteoporosis is both timely and appropriate. A chapter on hip fracture rehabilitation has also become necessary, not only because it echoes the teachings of the chapter on osteoporosis, but also because of the projected exponential increase in the occurrence of this fracture by the year 2050. DownloadOrthopedic Traumatology - A Resident's Guide
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| Pediatric Neuropathology: A Text-Atlas Posted: 06 Feb 2008 06:09 AM CST  Publisher: Springer Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2007-07-18 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 4431702466 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9784431702467 Binding: Hardcover Product Description: Neuropathology is the foundation for understanding developmental neuroscience, pediatric neurology, and neurosurgery, but until now a comprehensive volume covering all aspects of pediatric neuropathology was not available. This atlas is thus a unique, comprehensive reference providing the fundamentals of developmental brain disorders of the nervous system that can affect fetuses, infants and young children, as well as the essentials of diagnosis in developmental brain pathology and neuroimaging. With an emphasis on the characteristic morphology and a concise summary of clinical features, pathogenesis, and genetics, the generously illustrated atlas presents more than 100 disorders, including the common diseases of the peripheral nervous system as well as genetically determined metabolic and storage diseases. This compilation is a valuable resource for pathologists, pediatric neurologists and neurosurgeons, geneticists, neonatologists, radiologists, and pediatricians. DownloadPediatric Neuropathology: A Text-Atlas
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| Religion, Culture and Mental Health Posted: 06 Feb 2008 06:07 AM CST  Product Details Book Publisher: Cambridge University Press (29 January, 2007) ISBN: 0521850231 Book author: Kate Loewenthal Amazon Rating: Book Description: Are religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage clinical levels of obsessional behaviour? And are religious people happier than others? By merging the growing information on religion and mental health with that on culture and mental health, Kate Loewenthal enables fresh perspectives on these questions. This book deals with different psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, manic disorders, depression, anxiety, somatisation and dissociation as well as positive states of mind, and analyses the religious and cultural influences on each. Download
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