Nervous System category: 536 books
Embracing A.D.D.
A Healing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Rather than treat ADD/ADHD as a disorder, Dr. Lynn Weiss celebrates this "brainstyle"—a diversity in thinking—and provides a caring, humanized perspective. Via insights and exercises and using her experience as a counselor and social scientist, Dr. Weiss harnesses the positives in ADD/ADHD...
by Sotirios Parashos, Rose Wichmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Here is a marvelous guide for anyone affected by Parkinson's disease--patients, caregivers, family members, and friends. Containing the most up-to-date information on the disease, one of the most common neurological disorders, it discusses the available treatments and provides practical advice on...
by Ido Kedar
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What is autism? Is it a long list of behaviors, or is it more? Experts looked at my outside deficits—eye contact impairment, hand flapping and social delay–and concluded that my inside was equally impaired. They assumed I did not understand language, recognize my parents or have a thought more...
Multiple Sclerosis
300 Tips for Making Life Easier, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This completely revised second edition of Multiple Sclerosis: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier contains tips, techniques, and shortcuts to help MS patients organize and simplify their lives. With over 300 tips readers will learn to conserve valuable time and energy, develop techniques for making life...
by Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The most up-to-date resource on the powerful benefits of nutritional supplements for the treatment of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease
• Provides an easy-to-follow program of supplements to optimize the benefits of treatment, slow the progression of symptoms, and help delay onset...
Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome
A Six-step Mission to Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A comprehensive guide for service members, veterans, and their families dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and musculoskeletal injury, and substance abuse.
Written...
101 Tips for the Parents of Boys with Autism
The Most Crucial Things You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Doctors, Schools, Taxes, Vaccinations, Babysitters, Treatment, Food, Self-Care, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The latest research shows that more than 1 in 50 boys in the U.S. now has autism, and the number keeps rising. Parents of these boys become full-time researchers, always looking for the latest information on doctors, education, and treatments. Following countless hours of study, Ken Siri is sharing...
by Stanley C. Krippner Ph.D., Daniel B. Pitchford Ph.D., Jeannine A. Davies Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the nature, causes, and treatment of PTSD. Drawing on the vast experience of its team of authors, the book details the insidious nature and history of PTSD, from the internal and external factors that cause this form of...
by Elliot Jacob PhD. (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
The MediFocus Guidebook on Trigeminal Neuralgia is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source of information available. You will get answers to your questions, including risk factors of Trigeminal Neuralgia, standard and alternative treatment options, leading doctors, hospitals and medical centers that...
Epilepsy
A Patient and Family Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Epilepsy is the most common neurologic disorder in children, adults, and the elderly, affecting over 2.7 million people in the United States. Every year almost 200,000 people will be diagnosed with epilepsy and will face drastic lifestyle changes but a proper understanding of epilepsy is the first...
by Teisha Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Teisha Rose was just twenty-two and on a fast track to corporate success when her life was interrupted by a huge and unexpected hurdle. For the next four years she grieved for her lost dreams, caught in an avalanche of endless hospital ordeals and gruelling rehabilitation. Her devastating physical condition...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
This comprehensive ebook provides authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), also known as hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) or peroneal muscular atrophy.
Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed...
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
From Diagnosis to Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a damaging and often misdiagnosed neurological disease, and this reference provides concise information to help understand the disease and how it's treated. The book explains the symptoms of NPH, how NPH develops, medical tests performed to diagnose the condition,...
Blue Sky July
A Mother's Story of Hope and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005, Blue Sky July follows the story of Nia Wyn, a mother who battled against impossible odds to heal her son Joe, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy soon after he was born. Told by doctors that he would never walk, talk, see, or even recognize her, Wyn devoted...