Books published by Humana Press Inc.

This methods volume gives detail on preparation of electrodes, practical experimental details and the interpretation of results, with a strong emphasis on applications to neurobiology.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.

A basic understanding of cardiovascular physiology is essential for optimal patient care. From identifying key findings of the patient history and physical exam to correlating hemodynamic tracings with acute clinical presentations, this book arms the reader with the tools necessary to handle any hemodynamic-related situation.

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. This title focuses on the scientific evidence that define such risks in diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease.

Reviews the clinical, surgical, radiological, and scientific aspects of atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease (PAD), including endovascular, gene, and drug therapies. This work examines the risk factors and antiplatelet therapies for PAD patients at high risk for suffering a heart attack and/or and stroke.

"Pediatric Urology" provides paediatric urologists with detailed descriptions of the best approaches for the functional, biological, and morphological aspects of the urinary tract before and after birth.

This volume covers the gamut of surgical and device-based treatments for psychiatric disorders.

This book offers a thorough understanding of the evaluation of cardiac risk and the treatment of dyslipidemias. It contains practical recommendations for a risk-reduction approach to common, difficult patient types. It includes a wide variety of therapies.

The field of movement disorders is relatively broad, encompassing disorders of increased movement, such as tremors, dystonia, and tics, to disorders characterized by a paucity of movement, such as Parkinson's disease.

Plant Stress Tolerance

The kingdom Fungi constitutes an independent group equal in rank to that of plants and animals. Fungi are highly amenable to molecular work, and a few fungal species serve as model systems to study basic processes with results that are applicable to many organisms, including humans.

Early detection of cancer at the cellular level is critical. This book provides the most recent, cutting-edge methods designed to achieve the vital goals of nanotechnology-mediated early cancer detection and less toxic therapies for this devastating disease.

A clinical case-based handbook has a role in general clinicians' practice of caring for patients with serious or life-limiting illness. Thus, we hope that the cases, key points, and practical tips will help health care providers who are not experts already in palliative care in the care of patients with serious illness and challenging problems.

A majority of the Fortune 500 companies implement some practice of workplace drug testing in their company policies. This book covers all major issues concerning how people try to beat drug tests and defend positive test results.

This handbook of oral medicine and oral pathology is a highly readable guide for diagnosis and treatment of commonly encountered oral conditions and is a clinically relevant and accessible resource that truly bridges the worlds of dentistry and medicine.

Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management, Second Edition is a comp- hensive overview of the field of male sexual function and includes a chapter on female sexual dysfunction, an emerging field with a very high incidence in the population and an ever-growing following.

An excellent first step is to use Eroboghene Ubogu's Neurology Oral Boards Review in the months before you begin studying for the Boards in earnest. There is no substitute for finding one of your former re- dency supervisors or a senior colleague in your group practice to perform a simulated Oral Board session.

Internationally recognized experts, pioneers, and opinion makers in evidence-based medicine (EBM) provocatively recast endocrine policy and practice in the light of EBM philosophy and principles.

Leading academic and pharmaceutical researchers and clinicians from many disciplines synthesize and summarize current clinical and basic knowledge concerning abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye, the cause of major neovascular eye diseases.

This is truly an exciting time in the field of neuro-oncology, particularly in the area of hi- grade gliomas. If the current state-of-the-art in the diagnosis and management of high-grade gliomas was truly so bleak, there would be no reason to compile and publish a monograph on the subject.

Leading expert physicians and investigators from around the world review the state-of-the-art in the management of squamous cell head and neck cancer, with emphasis on coordinating different treatment modalities.

Among the viewpoints up for debate are a consideration of organizations as evil structures, the "medicalization" of evil, destruction as a constructive choice, violence as a secular evil, talking about evil when it is not supposed to exist, and the influence of evil on forensic clinical practice.

The aim of this book is to bring together social scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists and others to promote a dialogue about the variety of processes involved in social cognition, as well as the relevance of mirroring neural systems to those processes.

Groundbreaking and long overdue, Essential Dance Medicine is a unique text designed to help medical professionals learn the presentations, differential diagnoses and available treatment options for common dance injuries.

Leading clinicians and clinical researchers discuss in practical detail the newest treatments used in rheumatic diseases, emphasizing-without neglecting current standard treatments-those experimental therapies now undergoing clinical trials and poised for early introduction into the rheumatology armamentarium.

Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the United States. In this book, distinguished researchers and clinicians discuss the process of acculturation for individuals and their families, addressing the mental health needs of Asian Americans.

Distinguished researchers and clinicians review the biological and biomedical aspects of gasotransmitters, emphasizing signaling transduction mechanisms in general, and ion channel regulation in particular. The authors discuss the endogeneous metabolism and regulation of gasotransmitters, their toxicological profiles and biological actions, and their interactions in terms of their production and effects. The physiological roles of NO, CO, and H2S in the regulation of the cardiovascular, neuronal, and gastrointestinal systems, as well as of cell metabolism, are also reviewed, along with the interaction of the gastrotransmitters with KATP,KCa voltage-gated Ca2+, voltage-gated Na+, and cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels.

Opioid research is one of the multidisciplinary research areas that involve advanced techniques ranging from molecular genetics to neuropharmacology, and from behavioral neuroscience to clinical medicine.