Sedentary behaviours include activities at the lowest spectrum of energy expenditure such as lying down, sitting, watching television, using the co...

Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element of fundamental importance to health, primarily due to its antioxidant activity. Selenium has chemoprote...

Selenium is an important micronutrient in humans and animals, despite its toxicity at high concentrations. This first chapter performs a thorough r...

Schizophrenia has long been regarded as the most important mental problem since the twentieth century. Apart from the biochemical and genetic model...

Apart from the biochemical and genetic models, there are many psychosocial theories including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, phenomenological...

How can the giant amount of data obtained in the Human Genome Project and related research endeavours can be used for practical medicine? What are ...

This book attempts to address and answer questions about different types of disorders in particular developmental spheres in children with learning...

How can leadership in service economies be developed and nurtured? This issue is of the utmost importance, because the mode of production and requi...

Sexual function is an integral part of human existence and well-being. Sexual dysfunctions could have detrimental repercussions on the individual, ...

Emerging adulthood (ages 18-15) is increasingly viewed as among the highest sexual risk age groups. A variety of factors, including biological, psy...

This book presents national estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics on sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, and sexual identity in...

An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions ki...

Signal transduction is any process by which a cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another. Processes referred to as signal transducti...

This book presents state-of-the-art information on the molecules of cell signalling pathways that represent actual or future targets for cancer the...

This book provides significant health statistics through reports from federal agencies. The statistics discussed include updates on previously repo...

This book can be used as a review guide for the students preparing for exams in medical or science disciplines. The first two chapters focus on the...

Users play a key role in many training strategies, yet many organisations, which are directly or indirectly involved in training those who design a...

Three types of skin cancer account for nearly 100% of all diagnosed cases. Each of these three cancers begins in a different type of cell within th...

Sleep apnea or sleep apnoea is a sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "witho...

Smoke Signals gathers 71 of Professor Simon Chapman’s authoritative, acerbic and often heretical essays from across his 40-year career. They cover ...