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  • Sexual Abuse - Breaking the Silence
    Sexual Abuse - Breaking the Silence
    Editor Ersi Abacı Kalfoğlu and Rehat Faikoğlu
    ISBN 978-953-51-0425-4
    238 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1270
    Sexual assault can be considered as expression of aggression through sex. This, in turn, can have serious negative effects on a survivor’s social and occupational functioning. This book has been organized towards that specific approach, by compilin ...
  • Standard and Innovative Strategies in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
    Standard and Innovative Strategies in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
    Editor Irismar Reis de Oliveira
    ISBN 978-953-51-0312-7
    190 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 2040
    Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the fastest growing and the best empirically validated psychotherapeutic approach. Written by international experts, this book intends to bring CBT to as many mental health professionals as possible. Section 1 in ...
  • Dystonia - The Many Facets
    Dystonia - The Many Facets
    Editor Raymond L. Rosales
    ISBN 978-953-51-0329-5
    220 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 606
    Dystonia has many facets, and among those, this book commences with the increasingly associated genes identified, including a construct on how biology interacts with the dystonia genesis. The clinical phenomenology of dystonia as approached in the bo ...
  • Advances in the Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
    Advances in the Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
    Editor Maurizio Balestrino
    ISBN 978-953-51-0136-9
    246 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1340
    In recent years research on ischemic stroke has developed powerful therapeutic tools. The novel frontiers of stem cells therapy and of hypothermia have been explored, and novel brain repair mechanisms have been discovered. Limits to intravenous throm ...
  • Peripheral Neuropathy - Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches
    Peripheral Neuropathy - Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches
    Editor Ghazala Hayat
    ISBN 978-953-51-0066-9
    206 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 902
    Over the last two decades we have seen extensive progress within the practice of neurology. We have refined our understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis for both peripheral and central nervous system diseases, and developed new therapeutic appr ...
  • Epilepsy - Histological, Electroencephalographic and Psychological Aspects
    Epilepsy - Histological, Electroencephalographic and Psychological Aspects
    Editor Dejan Stevanovic
    ISBN 978-953-51-0082-9
    276 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 684
    With the vision of including authors from different parts of the world, different educational backgrounds, and offering open-access to their published work, InTech proudly presents the latest edited book in epilepsy research, Epilepsy: Histological, ...
  • Clinical, Research and Treatment Approaches to Affective Disorders
    Clinical, Research and Treatment Approaches to Affective Disorders
    Editor Mario Francisco Juruena
    ISBN 978-953-51-0177-2
    364 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 822
    The causes, development and outcomes of disorders are determined by the relationship of psychological, social and cultural factors with biochemistry and physiology. Biochemistry and physiology are not disconnected and different from the rest of our e ...
  • Bipolar Disorder - A Portrait of a Complex Mood Disorder
    Bipolar Disorder - A Portrait of a Complex Mood Disorder
    Editor Jarrett Barnhill
    ISBN 978-953-51-0002-7
    236 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 718
    Bipolar Disorder: Portrait of a Complex Mood Disorder is a step towards integrating many diverse perspectives on BD. As we shall see, such diversity makes it difficult to clearly define the boundaries of BD. It is helpful to view BD from this persp ...