The book is a practical guide for neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists willing to better understand the contemporary multimodal management of ne...

This is a startlingly frank account of a psychiatrist's and a psychologist's learnings, milestones and mistakes when working with people with the c...

This is a startlingly frank account of a psychiatrist's and a psychologist's learnings, milestones and mistakes when working with people with the c...

In 2004, over 23 million Americans age 12 and older needed speciality treatment for alcohol or illicit drug problems. Of those in need, only 10 per...

The number of people with schizophrenia globally is estimated at about 35 million, of whom 20 million live in developing or less developed countrie...

In 2015, 20.8 million people aged 12 years or older (7.8 percent of the United States population) had a substance use disorder (SUD) in the previou...

Drug and alcohol addiction are critical social problems in the United States. Drug and alcohol abuse are powerful facilitators of health and econom...

Men in America today may have advantages that women lack. However, in spite of these advantages, men die at a younger age on average than women; me...

Over the past several decades, the population of the United States has become increasingly diverse. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about one ...

Like all professions, the addictions treatment field is faced with the challenges of employee substance use and abuse and their impact on retention...

Substance Withdrawal Syndrome refers to the physiological and psychological symptoms associated with withdrawal from the use of a drug after prolon...

Suicidal behaviour is a major medical and social problem. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that alcohol and drug abuse is associated with suicida...

The main purpose of this book is to provide the first comprehensive analysis of suicide in psychiatric patients. 95% of those who commit suicide ha...

Why an entire volume on suicide in schizophrenia? It would appear that international literature already provides enough information in this field. ...

Suicide has been studied extensively but unfortunately still remains enigmatic and with a great gap from basic research. Personal views in regards ...

Suicidal events and episodes are very deadly to most who suffer from debilitating forms of depression, and generate great sums of money loss and ar...

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are used to treat patients with advanced thyroid cancers. Sunitinib (SU11248) is an oral small-molecule, oxindol derivat...

The orbital cavity is still a "no man's land", as no surgical discipline has ever fully addressed it. This book will encompass the orbital cavity f...

While arthroplasty is the preferred treatment for most elderly patients with displaced femoral neck fractures, internal fixation is the treatment o...

Swine-origin influenza A (H1N1), better known as swine flu, was declared by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic in June 2009. The hi...

This book is the integrated presentation of a large body of work on understanding the operation of biological brains as systems. The work has been ...