Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment

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»Book Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (26 February, 2004)
»ISBN: 0195144384
»Book author: Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins, Alice Carter

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The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together, for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behavior problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents state-of-the-art information on scientifically valid, developmentally based clinical assessments and makes recommendations based on the integration of developmental theory, empirical findings, and clinical experience. Though the field of mental health assessment in infants and young children lags behind work with older children and adults, recent scientific advances, including new measures and diagnostic approaches, have led to dramatic growth in the field. The editors of this exciting new work have assembled an extraordinary collection of chapters that thoroughly discuss the conceptualizations of dysfunction in infants and young children, current and new diagnostic criteria, and such specific disorders as sensory modulation dysfunction, sleep disorders, eating and feeding disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. Chapters further highlight the importance of incorporating contextual factors such as parent-child relationship functioning and cultural background into the assessment process to increase the validity of findings. Given the comprehensiveness of this groundbreaking volume in reviewing conceptual, methodological, and research advances on early identification, diagnosis, and clinical assessment of disorders in this young age group, it will be an ideal resource for teachers, researchers, and a wide variety clinicians including child psychologists, child psychiatrists, early intervention providers, early special educators, social workers, family physicians, and pediatricians.

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Understanding Stuttering (Understanding Health and Sickness)

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»Book Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (January, 2004)
»ISBN: 1578065739
»Book author: Nathan Lavid

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Insight into an ailment that impairs more than sixty million in the world population.

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Excellent insight into a prevalent affliction

Dr. Lavid has written an important contribution to this field. One of the difficulties in apprending stuttering in a complete way is its inherent complexity. Such understanding requires a level of familiarity with interactions between psychological,anatomical, physiological and molecular aspects. These areas are managed superbly by the author; each area is presented concisely with an extent of coverage which will satisfy most readers. For those who wish additional information, sources are provided. An excellent guide to assist those who will be conversing with children and adults who stutter is presented and is extremely valuable.


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»Book Publisher: Humana Press (29 September, 2003)
»ISBN: 1588290433
»Book author: Nicholas J. Goulden, Colin G. Steward

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A collection of cutting-edge methods for investigating and detecting a wide variety of hematological disorders. Here, the reader will find reliable molecular protocols for the diagnosis of Fanconi anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, immunodeficiency, and most forms of hemoglobinopathy. In addition, there are detailed methods for molecular human platelet antigen genotyping, an effective PCR procedure for thrombophilia screening, and protocols for fluorescent in situ hybridization. Since the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) provides a much more accurate risk-directed therapy, three methods are presented for detecting residual leukemia below the threshold of light microscopy, along with relatively simple, rapid, and cheap methods for the detection of MRD in ALL and AML.

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The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology: From Genes to Genomes

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»Book Publisher: Oxford University Press (2003)
»ISBN: 0195154363
»Book author: Rowland H. Davis

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This book explains the role of simple biological model systems in the growth of molecular biology. Essentially the whole history of molecular biology is presented here, tracing the work in bacteriophages in E. coli, the role of other prokaryotic systems, and also the protozoan and algal models - Paramecium and Chlamydomonas, primarily - and the move into eukaryotes with the fungal systems - Neurospora, Aspergillus and yeast. Each model was selected for its appropriateness for asking a given class of questions, and each spawned its own community of investigators. Some individuals made the transition to a new model over time, and remnant communities of investigators continue to pursue questions in all these models, as the cutting edge of molecular biological research flowed onward from model to model, and onward into higher organisms and, ultimately, mouse and man.

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»Book Publisher: Humana Press (21 April, 2003)
»ISBN: 0896039870
»Book author: Wafik S. El-Deiry

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The second volume of Tumor Suppressor Genes explores the cell biology and biochemical function of the tumor suppressor genes, as well as its physiological role in vivo. The authors detail the physical methods (NMR, microarray approaches, pot-translational structure analysis, analysis of regulation at the gene expression and protein signaling levels)used to understand the function of tumor suppressor genes. In vivo approaches discussed include studies in yeast, Drosophilia, mice, and human tumors.

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Leading physician scientists and academic researchers review all the known tumor suppressor genes, explain how they work, and describe how they were discovered and isolated. In many cases, the authors discuss specific genes that are frequently involved in hereditary or sporadic cancers. They also provide a detailed guide to using powerful molecular genetic, cytogenetic, proteomic, and cell biological strategies to discover and isolate novel tumor suppressor genes and their targets. A second volume of this two-volume set, Tumor Suppressor Genes, Volume 2: Regulation, Function, and Medical Applications, shows how to explore the cell biology and biochemical function of such encoded proteins, to study its physiological role in vivo, and to use information on TSGs to develop diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for cancer.


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»Book Publisher: Springer (31 January, 2003)
»ISBN: 0306474417
»Book author: Marek Los, Henning Walczak

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The volume offers insight into the key research topics that involve caspases. Leading experts from various areas of biology and medicine have compiled this volume so that both the novice and the professional will use this as the main reference for caspases for years to come. The reader will learn about the role of caspases in apoptosis signaling, inflammation and cancer therapy while being updated on the methodology used to study caspases and the efforts of pharmaceutical research in targeting caspases.

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Cancer Cell Signaling: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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»Book Publisher: Humana Press (09 December, 2002)
»ISBN: 1588290751
»Book author: David M. Terrian
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A collection of readily reproducible experimental methods for studying the subversion of normal cell signaling that leads to cancer. Presented in step-by-step detail to ensure successful results, the methods include proven techniques for the investigation of apoptosis and cell death, complementary protocols for manipulating and/or monitoring oncogenic signals in cancer cells, and techniques for studying protein-protein interactions. A detailed protocol for capturing pure samples of malignant cells from frozen tissue specimens and two alternative techniques for analyzing their genomic DNA is also described.

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