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The last four decades have witnessed considerable advances in our knowledge of the pharmacology of sleep. Both basic and clinical pharmacology have made major contributions toward our current understanding of the complex mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness. In addition, these advances in our understanding of the pharmacology of sleep have benefited the treatment of sleep disorders and various neurologic and psychiatric conditions. This volume is organized into three different parts. The first is a review of the basic mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness and the chronobiology of sleep. The second part reviews the basic pharmacology of the various neuro transmitter systems involved in sleep and wakefulness, while the third is clinically oriented and focuses on the effects of a variety of drugs on sleep and wakefulness. The initial part begins with a historical review of the hypotheses of the mechanisms of sleep, evolving from passive to active regulation, and concepts involving sleep-related neurotransmitters and other sleep factors. Then regulation of sleep and wakefulness is discussed in terms of homeostatic, circadian, and ultradian processes. Also discussed is the fact that sleep homeostasis is not disrupted by the administration of hypnotic drugs. This part also reviews time-dependent properties of pharmacologic agents in relation to endogenous biologic rhythms and more specifically to chrono pharmacologic changes."
In the biggest stayaway ever in South Africa, hundreds of thousands of people mourned the assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993. He was the first liberation movement leader to be buried with full military honours. But Chris Hani will not be remembered simply because he was a brave soldier and a popular leader. He was also a warm individual who showed concern for others, and was loved and respected by those who knew him. This book pays tribute to Chris Hani: the man of learning, the soldier, the individual. In Nelson Mandela's words, 'He was a fighter for peace, freedom and justice. Above all, he was a lover of the poor, the workers and the rural masses. He was a true son of the soil.' They Fought for Freedom tells the life stories of southern African leaders who struggled for freedom and justice. In spite of the important roles they played in the history of southern Africa, most of these leaders have been largely ignored by the history books. The series tells their stories in an entertaining manner, in clear language and aims to restore them to their rightful place in history.
A review of the current state of the clinical and basic science of the pharmacology of sleep. The information provided ranges from a historical perspective to current concepts of sleep mechanisms, including the interaction between pharmacology and sleep-wake regulation and between chronopahrmacology and sleep-wake rhythms. For the first time in one single volume, both the basic mechanisms of sleep, and the basic and clinical aspects of the pharmacology of sleep are dealt with in a thorough, comprehensive and authoritative manner. The chapters, written by the foremost scientific authorities in this field, integrate the latest information on the basic mechanisms of drugs as they relate to their effects on sleep.
First published in 1994. This volume contains the proceedings of a historic meeting, attended by over 2,000 mental health professionals and lay people, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Centre in New York City. Each contributor to this book offers unique insight into the seminal work of Karen Horney, one of the first psychoanalysts to question Freud's male-centred theories and clinical practices.; The book includes accounts of the formative girlhood experiences that awakened Horney's spirit of independence and the intellectual and cultural currents of her time that influenced her work. A contribution by a Preeminent Sex Therapist Challenges The Notion That Liberated Women threaten the potency of men. Other contributors define the characteristics of relationships that foster or hinder women's psychological growth and discuss the conflicts faced by adolescent girls as they become aware of gender differences.
Handbook of Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care is a practical guide to providing evidence-based and value-based care to adult and pediatric cancer patients experiencing severe symptoms and stressors due to cancer diagnosis, cancer treatment, and comorbid conditions. This accessible reference provides the art and science behind the whole-person and family approach to care by delivering the best practices to relieving a cancer patient's symptoms across physical, psychosocial, and spiritual dimensions. Unlike other resources, this book covers all dimensions of palliative care but with a special emphasis on primary palliative care. Part One of the handbook provides the essential background and principles of supportive oncology and palliative care, including chapters on understanding the adult and pediatric patient and family illness experience, the roles and responsibilities of the palliative care team, and the art of the palliative care assessment interview. Part Two covers symptom management and includes ten chapters considering the major physical and psychosocial symptoms a cancer patient may face-neurologic, cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, psychiatric, sleep and fatigue, pain, and psychosocial and spiritual distress. Part Three addresses special considerations and issues that an oncologist, physician, nurse or other healthcare provider often face in these settings, including chapters on intimacy, sexuality, and fertility issues, grief and bereavement, running a family meeting, care for the caregiver, and survivorship.Written by expert clinicians, this state-of-the-art handbook is a necessary resource for any oncologist, nurse, primary care physician, psychosocial expert, or related practitioner who endeavors to improve quality of life and provide healing to those suffering from cancer and its treatment. Key Features: Provides the binding principles of palliative care for pediatrics, adults and families from diverse cultures and spiritual beliefs Easy-to-read format makes extracting content fast and convenient for both the clinical and educational setting Guides the clinician and practitioner through the palliative care assessment process, including the appropriate questions for the palliative care interview Interdisciplinary team approach to psychosocial and spiritual care Includes access to the fully searchable downloadable eBook
This book presents current research in the study of computer networks, congressional policies and issues, as well as various applications and technologies powered by computers. Topics discussed include internet and computer-mediated technologies as new tools in the study of shyness; broadband internet access and the digital divide; bundling residential telephone, internet and video services; gender differences in high school internet coverage and ad hoc networks.
Die in sich abgeschlossenen Einzelbande des Werkes Neuro-Psychopharmaka stehen in ihrer Vollstandigkeit den in Klinik und Praxis tatigen Nervenarzten, Psychiatern und Neurologen sowie Grundlagenforschern als kompetentes Standardwerk der Psychopharmakologie zur Verfugung. Die Mitarbeit namhafter Experten burgt fur hochste wissenschaftliche Kompetenz unter Einbeziehung neuester klinischer und biochemisch-pharmakologischer Befunde. Intensive redaktionelle Bearbeitung sichert eine strikte Gliederung des Textes und einheitliche Abbildungen, wobei grosster Wert darauf gelegt wird, die komplexe Thematik ubersichtlich darzustellen. Fur eine rasche Vermittlung praxisrelevanter Informationen sorgen Ubersichtstabellen; den einzelnen Kapiteln sind zusatzlich ausfuhrliche Hinweise auf die Literatur beigegeben. Jeder Band wird durch ein umfangreiches Praparate- und Sachverzeichnis der in deutschsprachigen Landern verfugbaren Substanzen erganzt."
South African artist Irma Stern (1894â1966) is one of the nationâs most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africaâs most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Sternâs work documents important 20th-century cultural and political moments. More than 50 years after her death, Sternâs legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.
Essentials of Palliative Care is a to-the-point, clinically oriented resource for all members of the multidisciplinary palliative care team and trainees. It covers practical clinical topics, including assessment of the patient and pain and symptom management, and practical non-medical topics central to providing effective palliative care, including psychological management, guidance on how to help patients and their families through the many healthcare decision points they face, and sensitivity to the goals and culture of the patient. Review questions, with detailed answers, provide a convenient way for readers to test their knowledge. Features: . Concise, comprehensive, clinically focused . Multiple choice review questions, with detailed answers . Expert contributors from leading institutions . Coordination of care by palliative care team a major focus "
The demographic landscape of the United States has changed considerably in recent decades. Changing roles of women have reshaped patterns in marriage and divorce, childbearing, living arrangements and aspirations for education and career development. Immigration has increased. These trends have in turn affected the age, sex, racial and ethnic composition of the population. All these trends both affect, and are affected by, economic growth and technological change. This book provides a statistical picture of women in America in five critical areas: demographic and family changes, education, employment, health, and crime and violence. By presenting a quantitative snapshot of the well-being of American women based on Federal data, this book greatly enhances our understanding of both how far American women have come and the areas where there is still work to be done..
This book presents and discusses information on contemporary politics and economics of South and Central America. Topics discussed herein focus on South and Central America, its political dynamics, economic policies, institutions, and its future, as well as a specific focus on the countries of Colombia, Chile, Panama and Cuba.
Der Zahnarzt und das Recht: Ein Team anerkannter Experten, unter ihnen drei Fachanwalte fur Medizinrecht, stellt die komplizierte Materie in ubersichtlicher und verstandlicher Verknupfung von Wissenschaft und Praxis dar. Jeder Zahnarzt ist einer Fulle von haufig wechselnden rechtlichen Regelungen unterworfen, deren Folgen im Konfliktfall schnell und prazise eingeschatzt werden mussen. Das Praxishandbuch bietet eine rasche Orientierung bei der Klarung zahnarztlicher Rechtsfragen aus allen relevanten Bereichen. Es enthalt zahlreiche Beispiele aus praxisnaher Sicht des interdisziplinar tatigen Anwalts. Checklisten, Entscheidungshilfen und Verteidigungsstrategien unterstutzen die sofortige Umsetzbarkeit. Die aktuelle Rechtsprechung und insbesondere die erheblichen gesetzlichen Anderungen (Vertragsarztrechtsanderungsgesetz) und Reformen (Wettbewerbsstarkungsgesetz) finden umfassende Berucksichtigung."
In diesem Band 2 der Edition "Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege" entfalten und vertiefen die Autoren das Konzept der Sozialen Strafrechtspflege und analysieren die Starken und Schwachen der Umsetzung in die Praxis der Strafverfolgung und Strafvollstreckung - sowohl auf der Ebene des Einzelfalls als auch des Managements und der Systementwicklung. In einem weiteren Schwerpunkt werden Innovationsstrategien dargelegt und erfolgreiche Innovationsprojekte prasentiert. Ein Ausblick entwickelt eine Agenda fur wirksame und nachhaltige Aktivitaten in den nachsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten.
Die in sich abgeschlossenen Einzelbande des Werkes Neuro-Psychopharmaka stehen in ihrer Vollstandigkeit den in Klinik und Praxis tatigen Nervenarzten, Psychiatern und Neurologen sowie Grundlagenforschern als kompetentes Standardwerk der Psychopharmakologie zur Verfugung. Die Mitarbeit namhafter Experten burgt fur hochste wissenschaftliche Kompetenz unter Einbeziehung neuester klinischer und biochemisch-pharmakologischer Befunde. Intensive redaktionelle Bearbeitung sichert eine strikte Gliederung des Textes und einheitliche Abbildungen, wobei grosster Wert darauf gelegt wird, die komplexe Thematik ubersichtlich darzustellen. Fur eine rasche Vermittlung praxisrelevanter Informationen sorgen Ubersichtstabellen; den einzelnen Kapiteln sind zusatzlich ausfuhrliche Hinweise auf die Literatur beigegeben. Jeder Band wird durch ein umfangreiches Praparate- und Sachverzeichnis der in deutschsprachigen Landern verfugbaren Substanzen erganzt."
Dieses Handbuch erkl{rt die psychologischen, sozialen, neurophysiologischen und neuroendokrinologischen Hintergr}nde der Angst. Vorteilhaft gegen}ber bisherigen Ver-ffentlichungen ist das Zugrundeliegen eines einheitlichenKonzepts, nach welchem die Autoren Symptomatik, Differentialdiagnose und Therapiem-glichkeiten darstellen.
Aktuell und kritisch fasst dieses Taschenbuch die praktischen
Aspekte der Insulinbehandlung zusammen: Fur viele Arzte ist dieses
Buch deshalb zum wichtigsten Leitfaden der Insulintherapie
geworden. Die sechste Auflage wurde vollstandig uberarbeitet. Zu
Insulinanaloga wird anhand neuester Literatur Stellung bezogen. Bei
Typ-2-Diabetes pladieren die Autoren fur eine "Revolution" der
Insulintherapie: Statt rigider Diatplane und konventioneller
Insulintherapie propagieren sie primar eine Behandlung mit
praprandialen, bedarfsgerechten Gaben von Normalinsulin und
liberaler Kost.
Diabetes Complication and Control Trial ist die grosste Studie der Welt uber den Zusammenhang zwischen Diabetesfolgeschaden und Stoffwechselkontrolle zur Reduktion der gefurchteten Folgeschaden. Die vierte Auflage dieses Taschenbuches ist ein Leitfaden der Funktionellen Insulintherapie (FIT). Bei FIT nimmt der Patient das Insulin funktionell getrennt entweder zum Essen oder zum Fasten oder zur Korrektur der uberhohten Blutzuckerwerte. Der supervidierende Arzt und/oder Berater spielt dabei eine unterstutzende Rolle. Dem Leser wird verstandlich, welche Kenntnisse zum funktionellen Insulingebrauch wie an Betroffene vermittelt werden sollten, um sie zu befahigen, aus einem "Insulinwirkung angepassten Leben" leicht ein "Leben mit angepasster Insulinanwendung" zu machen."
Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal communities. In this book, coastal adaptation experts discuss the interrelated challenges facing communities experiencing sea level rise and increasing storm impacts. These issues extend far beyond land use planning into housing policy, financing for public infrastructure, insurance, fostering healthier coastal ecosystems, and more. Deftly addressing far-reaching problems from cleaning up contaminated, abandoned sites, to changes in drinking water composition, chapters give a clear-eyed view of how we might yet chart a course for thriving coastal communities. They offer a range of climate adaptation policies that could protect coastal communities against increasing risk, while preserving the economic value of these locations, their natural environments, and their community and cultural values. Lessons are drawn from coastal communities around the United States to present equitable solutions. The book provides tools for evaluating necessary trade-offs to think more comprehensively about the future of our coastal communities. Coastal adaptation will not be easy, but planning for it is critical to the survival of many communities. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation will inspire innovative and cross-disciplinary thinking about coastal policy at the state and local level while providing actionable, realistic policy and planning options for adaptation professionals and policymakers.
Die grol3e Haufigkeit psychiatrischer Erkrankungen in der Bevolkerung hat in den letzten lahren dazu gefUhrt, viele diagno- stische und auch therapeutische Aufgaben des Psychiaters in die Praxis des Aligemeinarztes und Internisten hineinzutragen. Diese Entwicklung zeichnet sich auch inder erheblichen Zunahme des Einsatzes von Psychopharmaka -insbesondere von Benzodiaze- pin-Tranquilizern und Antidepressiva -aul3erhalb der psychiatri- schen Praxis abo Voraussetzung fUr eine adaquate Versorgung psychisch kranker Patienten ist, dal3 bei den nicht-fachpsychiatrisch ausgebildeten Arzten ausreichende Kompetenzen und Kenntnisse auch auf dem Gebiet der Pharmako-Psychiatrie vorliegen. Die Erfahrun- gen aus Fortbildungsveranstaltungen zeigen, dal3 auf einigen Gebieten der Psychopharmakatherapie und der Behandlung von Depressionen erhebliche Unsicherheiten und Informationsbe- diirfnisse bestehen. Die Zielsetzung der 1. Psychiatrischen Gesprache am Gasteig war es, gerade diese aktuellen Probleme aufzugreifen, urn nach einer ausfUhrlichen Expertendiskussion praktikable Therapieempfeh- lungen formulieren zu konnen. Die zu diesem Expertengesprach eingeladenen Psychiater waren aufgefordert, zu verschiedenen Fragestellungen zunachst ein kurzes Statement abzugeben. In der anschliel3enden ausfiihrlichen Diskussion sollte ein Konsens beziiglich der an den niedergelassenen Aligemeinarzt und Inter- nisten weitergegebenen Therapieempfehlungen erarbeitet wer- den. Es wurde bewul3t auf ein Auditorium verzichtet, urn eine moglichst freie und offene Diskussion zu gewahrleisten. Die Viel- schichtigkeit der Materie brachte es mit sich, dal3 nicht in allen Fragen Einigkeit iiber die zu empfehlenden Behandlungsstrate- gien erzielt werden konnte. Die Herausgeber haben sich bemiiht, klare Behandlungsrichtlinien festzulegen und dabei weitgehend den unterschiedlichen Auffassungen gerecht zu werden. |
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