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What is it, what are its causes, what consequences does it entail? Discover all the answers to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a disease that has increased in terms of the number of cases affected in recent years, which in turn has caused many questions to arise when a person or a family member receives the diagnosis, such as, what Alzheimer's is, what its origin is, if there is a treatment, how the disease evolves, what the consequences in everyday...
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Issu d'une trilogie amplement consacrée à la maladie Alzheimer, ce livre a été conçu à la base de questionnements utiles. D'emblée un mot sur ses mérites pédagogiques: le livre adopte une démarche rationnelle simplifiée qui permet à tous les lecteurs concernés de comprendre le phénomène qui les accable, partant ontologiquement de la définition très fine en passant par la causalité pour enfin aboutir aux conséquences variées. En...
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This is a captivating, must-read book for everyone, including medical professionals and journalists. This book delves into the myths that I have heard over the years about epilepsy and gives my readers an explanation of the facts and the reasons why the myths are myths. What can a person believe? How can we achieve a better understanding of epilepsy?This book covers all aspects of epilepsy, including basic mechanisms to diagnosis and management and...
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Comment traite-t-on la maladie d'Alzheimer ? Quelle est son évolution ? Comment peut-on prévenir son évolution ? Apprenez au sujet des dernières avancées en termes de prévention et de traitement de la maladie d'Alzheimer.
Un des aspects les plus importants d'une maladie est de savoir comment la vaincre, si elle dispose d'un remède et quel est le traitement. A ce sujet, de nombreux progrès sont réalisés en permanence dans le domaine de la...
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Have you ever
-Wondered how to deal with a family that repeatedly fails to keep clinic appointments?
-Disagreed with colleagues over a proposed course of treatment for a child?
-Considered ways to 'bump' a child on a waiting to speed up their assessment?
These are a few of the scenarios faced by clinicians in neurodisability on a daily basis. Ethics in Child Health explores the ethical dimensions of these issues that have either been ignored...
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Comment traite-t-on la maladie? Quelle est son évolution? Comment la prévient-on? Découvrez les dernières avancées en matière de prévention et de traitement de la maladie d'Alzheimer. L'une des questions les plus importantes que l'on se pose face à une maladie, quelle qu'elle soit, est de savoir comment l'affronter, c'est-à-dire si des remèdes existent et quels sont les traitements. À cet égard, des progrès ont lieu constamment dans le...
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What really happens in the aftermath of a brain injury? Why can't doctors give definitive answers? Will life ever return to normal? In Living with a Brain Injury, fourteen victims and caregivers invite readers inside their own intimate journey and expose a tender array of emotions, fears, and hopes. Along the way they offer truthful-and sometimes profound-answers to common questions, many are too afraid to ask.
The candid yet inspiring true stories...
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This Atlas covers the entire spectrum of brain disease as studied with ultrasound, illustrated throughout with superb-quality images. It is aimed at neonatologists and radiologists confronted with everyday clinical questions on the neonatal ward. Most newborn brain disorders can be identified with ultrasound; this book will therefore be particularly useful in settings with limited MRI facilities. Prenatal ultrasound specialists will also find it valuable...
50) Vagus Nerve: A Complete Guide to Activate the Healing power of Your Vagus Nerve – Reduce With Self-H
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Leverage the amazing power of your vagus nerve and uncover the secrets to unleashing your body's capacity for self-healing with this concise guide to the vagus nerve! Are you struggling with episodes of debilitating doubts, brain fog, anxiety, depression and panic attacks? Would you like to say goodbye to inflammation and other chronic illnesses and discover your body's built-in "switch" for ridding yourself of annoying ailments? If you answered yes...
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Il s'agit d'un livre captivant et incontournable pour tous, y compris les professionnels de la santé et les journalistes. Ce livre plonge dans les mythes que j'ai entendus au fil des ans sur l'épilepsie et donne à mes lecteurs une explication des faits et des raisons pour lesquelles les mythes sont des mythes. Que peut croire une personne ? Comment mieux comprendre l'épilepsie ?Ce livre couvre tous les aspects de l'épilepsie, y compris les mécanismes...
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Entré dans la langue française aux environs de 1690 sous la forme, aujourd'hui caduque, de « névrologie », le terme de neurologie, utilisé à partir de 1732 pour désigner la branche de la médecine qui étudie l'anatomie, la physiologie et la pathologie du système nerveux et principalement du cerveau , reçut sa consécration officielle de...
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This book details Anne Allbright Smith's eleven days of discomfort and pain as she voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) to bring about her own death. This was despite compassionate hospice care throughout.
There is overwhelming public support for Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). Yet only ten states and the District of Columbia have MAID statutes on their books. Why won't more legislators support the will of their constituents?
By contrast,...
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Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one day. Suffering from a horrible cough, she inhaled the cold March air, and choked. She was choking on a lot that day. A sick child. A pending divorce. The guilt of failing, as a partner, as a mother. Relieved when the coughing abated, she thought it was over. She could not have been more wrong.When Andrea coughed that day, a small tear was ripped in her dura mater, the membrane that covers...
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A collection of bite-sized discussions of topics of relevant interest in the related disciplines of neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry. What about the mystery behind the condition of anosognosia, or the lesser known muscle relaxing effect of nicotine? These are among the questions addressed and challenged in this book.
56) Facing Neuralgia
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At the age of thirty Wendy Evans, a vivacious, versatile and devoted primary school teacher with singing and acting talents, was struck down by a devastating and very rare nerve disease with serious and debilitating symptoms including pain and foreign body sensations in her throat, shock-like pains in her ears and neck, and difficulty and pain when talking, swallowing, chewing, coughing and yawning. As a consequence, her teaching career and singing...
57) Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria
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It is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science: the mating calls of insects were mistaken for a "sonic weapon" that led to a major diplomatic row. Since August 2017, the world media has been absorbed in the "attack" on diplomats from the American and Canadian Embassies in Cuba. While physicians treating victims have described it as a novel and perplexing condition that involves an array of complaints including brain damage, the...
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Part neuroscience, part memoir, Theme and Variations makes the latest evidence about how we process music in our conscious and unconscious mind accessible to every reader. Through his own experiences, the author, a musician and neuroscientist, shows how he came to understand the importance of music in his life, in all of our lives, revealing a number of surprises that will fascinate physicians, musicians, and the music-loving public alike, raising...
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Plongez dans l'univers captivant de la télépathie avec ce livre, un voyage intellectuel et spirituel qui explore les possibilités extraordinaires de la communication mentale. Ce best-seller propose une analyse approfondie des recherches actuelles, des perspectives historiques et des témoignages intrigants, offrant aux lecteurs une compréhension nuancée de ce phénomène mystérieux.
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During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor's best teachers are often his patients. From these (extra)ordinary individuals, he gained a whole-hearted respect for the resourcefulness, courage, and resilience of the human spirit.
Part memoir and part homage to those patients who faced major illness with grace, grit, and dignity, Carrying the Black Bag invites...
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