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There is a great need for a single book that covers the main aspects of neurological and psychiatric disorders in sufficient breadth and depth to enable MDs, PhDs, and PharmDs to master their exams and prepare to safely and effectively practice their future health care professions. In Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: From Bench to Bedside, leading researchers and practicing clinicians team up to provide a comprehensive, systematic, and advanced review of the scientific, preclinical, and clinical aspects of several major mental illnesses. The illnesses covered range from neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and Parkinson's disease, to psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. For each disorder, the authors uniformly discuss its incidence and prevalence, etiology and general description, molecular targets and mechanisms of action, brain structures and pathways, animal models, signs and symptoms, genetics, standard and experimental treatments, and related medical terminology. Introductory chapters explain the neural and pharmacotherapeutic principles underlying these disorders, as well as the theoretical and methodological parameters needed to optimally interpret the neuroanatomical, imaging, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacokinetic data presented throughout the book. Authoritative and up to date, Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: From Bench to Bedside offers neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and health care professionals in this area a comprehensive, systematic, and advanced understanding of preclinical research, clinical diagnosis, and standard and novel treatments for major neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Mental Disorders --- Nervous System Diseases --- Neuropsychiatry --- Neuropsychiatrie --- Neuropsychiatry. --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Diseases --- Neurology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biological psychiatry. --- Biopsychiatry --- Behavioral neurology --- Medicine. --- Neurology. --- Psychiatry. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Psychiatry --- Psychobiology --- Biological psychiatry --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Nervous system --- Neurology .

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With an aging population suffering from a high level of cardiac and cerebrovascular disease, it has become increasingly clear that the time may be ripe for a deeper understanding of vascular disease (VaD). In Vascular Dementia: Cerebrovascular Mechanisms and Clinical Management, a panel of multidisciplinary experts summarizes our current understanding of the biological and clinical aspects of the condition. The authors describe the basic mechanisms associated with aging and cerebrovascular disease that may play an important role in the development of VaD, and identify its impact on cognitive status, psychiatric health, and the ability of patients to complete the tasks of daily living. Additional chapters address the pharmacological management of vascular dementia and the use of neuroimaging methods to investigate it, with particular attention devoted to both functional and structural imaging techniques. The complex relationship between VaD and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is fully explored, with chapters on how these processes may interact and how one disease may lower the threshold for clinical expression of the other. The authors also consider the impact of VaD on the perceived quality of life of patients and caregivers, two issues rarely discussed in the scientific community. Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, Vascular Dementia: Cerebrovascular Mechanisms and Clinical Management offers both clinicians and basic scientists a wide ranging account of this rapidly developing field, explores the direction of future VaD studies, and authoritatively describes today's optimal therapeutic approaches.

Vascular dementia --- Démence vasculaire --- Vascular dementia. --- Dementia, Vascular --- Dementia --- Intracranial Arteriosclerosis --- Leukoencephalopathies --- Cerebrovascular Disorders --- Brain Diseases --- Intracranial Arterial Diseases --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Arteriosclerosis --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Mental Disorders --- Nervous System Diseases --- Arterial Occlusive Diseases --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Vascular Diseases --- Diseases --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Neurology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Cerebrovascular disease. --- Apoplexy --- Brain --- Cerebral circulation disorders --- Cerebral vascular accident --- Cerebrovascular accident --- Cerebrovascular disorders --- Cerebrovascular syndrome --- CVA (Disease) --- Stroke --- VaD (Vascular dementia) --- Blood-vessels --- Medicine. --- Neurology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Neglect (Neurology)

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La malattia tumorale può essere avvicinata con l’obiettivo di uccidere le cellule malate oppure con quello di far fare loro a ritroso la strada che porta da uno stato di equilibrio naturale alla malattia. Questo libro racconta una ricerca originale dell’autore ispirata a questa visione biologica del cancro, ricerca che ha portato alla produzione e all’utilizzo di prodotti antitumorali. Inevitabilmente, la storia della ricerca scivola in una visione del mondo e della vita che presenta i tratti di una documentata critica ai valori e alle priorità che caratterizzano il mondo in cui viviamo. Un libro profondo e umano, che fa pensare, che fa sperare.

Popular Science. --- Popular Science in Medicine and Health. --- Oncology. --- Internal Medicine. --- Science (General). --- Internal medicine. --- Medicine. --- Médecine interne --- Cancérologie --- Médecine --- Cancer cells. --- Cancer. --- Clinical medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Cytology -- Data processing. --- Diseases --- Behavior --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Personal Satisfaction --- Neoplasms --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Oncology --- Tumors. --- Tumours --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Popular works. --- Health. --- Tumors --- Pathology --- Cysts (Pathology) --- Oncology  . --- Medicine, Internal --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- Medicine . --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Physiology --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being

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Although the sensory organs-particularly the eye and ear-are of great clinical importance, the lecture time allocated to them in the anatomical curricula is limited because of their great nomenclatural and physiological complexity. Sufficiently detailed descriptions can usually be found only in multivolume handbooks or in specialist monographs covering a single sensory organ. In Atlas of the Sensory Organs: Functional and Clinical Anatomy, a panel of expert medical educators and internationally renowned comparative and developmental neuroanatomists concisely, but thoroughly, describe the five main human sensory systems together with their neural pathways, from primary sensation to processing by the brain. The authors provide a detailed anatomical survey of each sensory organ, covering their ontogeny (development), central pathways, and functional mechanisms. The organs themselves are richly illustrated with light and electron microscopic representations of healthy and intact organs or tissues, except where pathology is directly relevant to understanding normal structure and function. Highlights include microanatomy and endoscopic images of the temporal bone, human embryonic specimens demonstrating the histology of the developing ear, and scanning electron micrographs of the organ of Corti and the vestibular receptors. There are also easy-to-use tables providing an overview of the nerves and arteries of the eye and orbit, and clinical specimens of the eye and optic pathways. A companion compact disk contains high-resolution copies of the color illustrations used in the book. Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Atlas of the Sensory Organs: Functional and Clinical Anatomy provides a detailed portrait of all the sensory organs and related neural systems in a single volume replete with high-quality illustrations of original specimens, recordings, and numerous schematic drawings.

Sense organs --- Ear --- Eye --- Nose --- Sensation --- Skin --- Tongue --- Atlases. --- anatomy & histology --- physiology --- Ear. --- Eye. --- Nose. --- Sense organs -- Atlases. --- Skin. --- Tongue. --- Face --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Integumentary System --- Mouth --- Sense Organs --- Respiratory System --- Psychophysiology --- Head --- Publication Formats --- Nervous System Physiological Processes --- Anatomy --- Gastrointestinal Tract --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Publication Characteristics --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Body Regions --- Stomatognathic System --- Digestive System --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Physiology --- Atlases --- Medicine --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Neurology --- Medicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Biomedicine. --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system

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How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.

Cognitive psychology --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Biomedicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Behavioural Sciences. --- Psychiatry. --- Medicine. --- Animal behavior. --- Consciousness. --- Médecine --- Neurosciences --- Psychiatrie --- Animaux --- Conscience --- Moeurs et comportement --- Neural circuitry. --- Neural circuitry --- Brain --- Cognition --- Human information processing --- Information Theory --- Physiology --- Neural Pathways --- Mental Processes --- Information Science --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Central Nervous System --- Nervous System --- Anatomy --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Neurology --- Neuroscience --- Medicine --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Brain. --- Cognition. --- Human information processing. --- Information processing, Human --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Circuitry, Neural --- Circuits, Neural --- Nerve net --- Nerve network --- Neural circuits --- Neurocircuitry --- Neuronal circuitry --- Behavioral sciences. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Bionics --- Information theory in psychology --- Perception --- Psychology --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Electrophysiology --- Nervous system --- Neural networks (Neurobiology) --- Reflexes --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- Self --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Medical sciences --- Behavior --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science