Browsing School of Health Sciences by Title
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Child Neuropsychology
(Springer, 2007)The human brain represents the product of an ongoing, six-billion-year construction project. In its physical form and function, the human brain represents millions upon millions of trial-and-error adaptive adjustments. ... -
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
(Springer, 2010)Psychologists offer an increasing variety of services to the public. Among these services, psychological assessment of personality and behavior continues to be a central activity. One main reason is that other mental ... -
A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response
(Springer, 2013)The idea for our original volume fi rst arose in 1979. At that time, the study of human stress was by no means new. More than four decades earlier, the brilliant endocrinologist Hans Selye had coined the term “stress” ... -
Clinical Methods in Medical Family Therapy
(Springer, 2018)Medical family therapy (MedFT) represents a rapidly growing field in health care that purposefully interweaves patients and their families’ physical, psychological, social, and spiritual worlds. It does this with both ... -
Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts
(Springer, 2011)In his The Joys of Yiddish (1970), Leo Rosten delights the reader with this vignette: A bright young chachem told his grandmother that he was going to be a Doctor of Philosophy. She smiled proudly: ‘Wonderful. But what ... -
Evidence-Based Critical Care
(Springer, 2017)Along with Springer International, I am pleased to offer you our new textbook entitled Hyzy’s Evidence-Based Critical Care Medicine: A Case Study Approach. In medicine, “teachable moments” usually occur in clinical ... -
Evidence-Based Interventions for Children with Challenging Behavior
(Springer, 2014)Challenging behavior in young children is common. It can be diffi cult for parents or early childhood professionals to know what behaviors fall within the typical range of behavior. This chapter outlines the prevalence ... -
Evolutionary Thinking in Medicine
(Springer, 2016)Evolution in medicine?! Never heard of it! This quote, in essence, sums up the reaction of a medical doctor who kindly accepted to review the proposal for this book. Far from substantiating the received idea according ... -
Foundations of Behavioral Health
(Springer, 2020)Foundations of Behavioral Health is being completed in the midst of congressional debate over attempts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) which was originally signed into law by Former President ... -
Fundamentals of Clinical Trials
(Springer, 2015)The clinical trial is “the most definitive tool for evaluation of the applicability of clinical research.” It represents “a key research activity with the potential to improve the quality of health care and control costs ... -
Integrated Neuroscience
(Springer, 2002)This textbook takes as a premise that, in order to make intelligent diagnosis and provide a rational treatment in disorders of the nervous system, it is necessary to develop the capacity to answer the basic questions of ... -
Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
(Springer, 2015)From the Preface to the Third Edition, by Russell K. Hobbie: Between 1971 and 1973 I audited all the courses medical students take in their first 2 years at the University of Minnesota. I was amazed at the amount of ... -
International Perspectives on Psychotherapy
(Springer, 2017)After returning from Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory in Germany, Lightner Witmer introduced the term Clinical Psychology in an article published in The Psychological Clinic (Witmer, 1907). In this article, he explained: While ... -
Machine Learning in Medicine - a Complete Overview
(Springer, 2015)The amount of data stored in the world’s databases doubles every 20 months, as estimated by Usama Fayyad, one of the founders of machine learning and co-author of the book Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ... -
Metabolism of Human Diseases
(Springer, 2014)The scientifi c community has increasingly recognized metabolic alterations as being critical components or even drivers of human disease. Metabolism of Human Diseases discusses the metabolism and signaling pathways ... -
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
(Springer, 2019)Over the past 30 years, the share of biotechnologically derived drug products in the arsenal of medicinal products has been growing steadily. These drug products include proteins, such as monoclonal antibodies, antibody ... -
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
(Springer, 2013)Over the past 25 years, biotechnologically derived drug products have become a major share of the therapeutically used pharmaceuticals. These drug products include proteins, including monoclonal antibodies and antibody ... -
Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases
(Springer, 2008)Students, residents, and fellows interested in learning about the rheumatic diseases are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to integrate learning about a multitude of fascinating and diverse clinical disorders ... -
Social Anxiety and Social Phobia in Youth
(Springer, 2005)A great benefit of being a clinical child psychologist is the opportunity to conduct and review research on fascinating areas of human, youthful behavior.Andperhaps no behavior is as central tohumanexistence as ... -
Spine Surgery
(Springer, 2019)We are very excited to introduce this new book on spinal surgery, which follows the curriculum of the EUROSPINE basic and advanced diploma courses. The approach we take is a purely case-based one, in which each case ...
