This book address metabolic disorders (e.g. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, overweight/obesity, disturbances in inflammatory response systems) and...

Since different diseases and their associated pathogens became more resistant to the diverse drugs that have been synthesized or isolated from natu...

Childbirth is one of the most important social and psychological life events for women. In addition to the social context of including a new family...

Dreams are a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and ...

In many ways, it is "the best of times and the worst of times" for the field of psychiatry. New discoveries in neuroscience are leading us to a bet...

In many ways, it is "the best of times and the worst of times" for the field of psychiatry. New discoveries in neuroscience are leading us to a bet...

Psychiatric disorders and certain personality features are frequently associated with cardiovascular disorders. For the past several decades attent...

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which the interpretation of reality is abnormal....

Psychopathy is one of the most serious and challenging conditions that society and mental health professionals face. The consequences of the action...

Psychosis is considered the most debilitating psychiatric condition. It presents a heavy burden of suffering in terms of its prevalence, morbidity,...

This book explores new research in psychotherapy including dyadic developmental psychotherapy and its primary components; hope-focused couple enric...

This book discusses methods, outcomes and future directions in psychotherapy. Chapter One studies phenomenological hermeneutics psychotherapy. Chap...

Pharmacotherapy is the most commonly used treatment method for psychiatric disorders. Many patients experience medical diseases concurrent with psy...

Children in foster care are children that the state has removed from their homes and placed in another setting designed to provide round-the-clock ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have collaborated to develop clin...

It is slowly becoming accepted that people with terminal illnesses who are suffering physically and mentally from the illness have the moral and le...

SBAs, EMQs & SAQs in the SPECIALTIES provides a broad range and style of questions, not only for medical students preparing for their final exa...

Schizophrenia: Triggers and Treatments is a series of texts that introduces the reader to some of the more recent advances in schizophrenia researc...

Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric disorder characterized by a disruption in neuropsychological function that usually manifests itself between th...