Nervous System The Brain category: 536 books
by David C. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Roughly 3 million people in the United States have already been diagnosed with epilepsy and another 200,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Worldwide, approximately 1 percent of the global population is diagnosed with epilepsy at some point in their lives. With the diagnosis come questions, concerns,...
Autism Adulthood
Insights and Creative Strategies for a Fulfilling Lifeâ€"Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is their looming adulthood and all that it entails. In this Second Edition of her lauded book Autism Adulthood, Susan Senator further tackles the challenges of adult life on the autism spectrum on the more severe end of the spectrum –...
by Matt Cavallo
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
At age twenty-eight, Matt Cavallo was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Seemingly over night he went from a fully-functioning, healthy man to someone who was numb from the waist down and unable to walk. His story of being diagnosed and overcoming the physical and emotional challenges associated with...
by Mary Jane Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
In "Sharing the Pain...The RSD Interviews", an informative book that is sure to enlighten the public, Gonzales conducts fifty interviews of RSD/CRPS patients, giving readers a glimpse into the struggles of both the patients and their families. Their struggles will astonish you and their strength will...
Epilepsy in Children
What Every Parent Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
For the parent of a child with epilepsy, an easy-to-read guide to understanding and managing the disorder while helping your child achieve and maintain a high quality of life.
From a leading neurologist, experienced nurse practitioner, and registered dietician comes the complete guide to managing...
by Tim Betts, Harriet Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Women with epilepsy have different needs to men with epilepsy, especially at various stages in their life cycle. Epilepsy and its treatment can affect or compromise the menstrual cycle, contraception, fertility and pregnancy, child development in the womb, child care and the menopause. Conversely...
The Mind Tree
A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by a severely autistic young boy, this articulate and beautiful book “forces us to reconsider the condition of the deeply autistic”(Dr. Oliver Sacks).
In The Mind Tree, we meet Tito, a severely autistic and nearly nonverbal child who, despite these challenges, has an astonishing...
by Marjorie Calvert, Dr. Ronald DeVere, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Demos Health and the American Academy of Neurology Present a New Book for Patients with Smell and Taste Disorders
Over 200,000 people visit doctors each year for smell and taste problems. Since our ability to smell and taste decreases with age, up to 14 million Americans aged 55 and older may...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
A Guide for Patients and Families:Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, cannot be cured but it can be treated. A great deal can be done to treat the symptoms of ALS, to improve an individual's quality of life, and to help families, caregivers, and loved ones to cope with the disease. This extensively revised and rewritten new edition...
Helping Children with Autism Learn
Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Bryna Siegel gives parents of autistic children what they need most: hope. Her first book, The World of the Autistic Child, became an instant classic, illuminating the inaccessible minds of afflicted children. Now she offers an equally insightful, thoroughly practical guide to treating the learning...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
The brachial plexus is a medical network of nerves that conducts signals from the spine to the shoulder, arm, and hand.
Brachial plexus injuries are produced by injury to those nerves.
The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that begin in the neck region.
It branches off to...
The Autism Job Club
The Neurodiverse Workforce in the New Normal of Employment
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world.
The book has its basis in the autism job club that the authors have been part of in the San Francisco Bay Area, the job-creation and job-placement efforts the...
The New Parkinson's Disease Treatment Book
Partnering with Your Doctor To Get the Most from Your Medications
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The fundamental guide to the most effective treatments for Parkinson's Disease, from a Mayo Clinic doctor with thirty years of clinical and research experience. In this second edition follow-up to the extremely successful first edition, Dr. Ahlskog draws on thirty years of clinical experience to present...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This volume of the Medical Basic Guides is about Mental Health Medications "What You Always Wanted To Know About..." are , straight-to-the-point, easily understandable and comprehensive medical ebooks and guides for everybody. Whether you are just interested in the topic of the book or you...