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  • Dying, Death, and Grief Dying, Death, and Grief
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    Dying, Death, and Grief

    Death is a very badly kept secret; such an unmentionable and taboo topic that there are over 750 books now in print asserting that we are ignoring the subject.At no time in history has there been so much attention paid to death...
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  • Comprehensive Virology Volume 13 Comprehensive Virology Volume 13
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    Comprehensive Virology Volume 13

    The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably...
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  • Central Regulation of the Endocrine System Central Regulation of the Endocrine System
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    Central Regulation of the Endocrine System

    According to the classical concept of Geoffrey Harris the pituitary gland is controlled by the brain by means of blood-borne chemical messengers produced by central neurons. The recent isolation and structural characterization...
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  • The Clinical Psychology of Aging The Clinical Psychology of Aging
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    The Clinical Psychology of Aging

    It has been estimated that there are at least 2,500,000 adults, 10% of the population above age 65, who are currently in need of some sort of mental health services (Kramer, Taube, and Redick, 1973). Other estimates are even...
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  • Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasonics, and Thermography Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasonics, and Thermography
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    Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasonics, and Thermography

    The material in this volume was prepared and collected over the past four years with the growing realization that a technical revolution was in progress for diagnostic medicine. It became clear that for the wide variety of...
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  • Biofeedback and the Modification of Behavior Biofeedback and the Modification of Behavior
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    Biofeedback and the Modification of Behavior

    In this book, I have attempted to evaluate critically the very large literature which has accumulated in the area of biofeedback over the past 10-15 years. As might be expected in any area of psychology with clinical ...
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  • Calcium in Drug Action Calcium in Drug Action
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    Calcium in Drug Action

    Anyone surveying physiological and pharmacological journals can readily see that the biological actions of calcium ion are of increasingly widespread current interest. The scope of investi­ gated actions and reactions in which...
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  • Pathophysiology of Cerebral Energy Metabolism Pathophysiology of Cerebral Energy Metabolism
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    Pathophysiology of Cerebral Energy Metabolism

    This monograph contains the proceedings of an International Symposium on the Pathophysiology of Cere­ bral Energy Metabolism which was held at the University of Belgrade School of Medicine, September 19-22, 1977. The purpose of...
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  • Purine Metabolism in Man II Purine Metabolism in Man II
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    Purine Metabolism in Man II

    The study of gouty arthritis has provided a common meeting ground for the research interests of both the basic scientist and the clinician. The interest of the chemist in gout began 1776 with the isolation of uric acid from a...
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  • Handbook of Psychopharmacology Handbook of Psychopharmacology
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    Handbook of Psychopharmacology

    Underlying the design of the Handbook of Psychopharmacology is a prejudice that the study of drug influences on the mind has advanced to a stage where basic research and clinical application truly mesh. These later volumes of...
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  • Catecholamines and Behavior . 2 Catecholamines and Behavior . 2
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    Catecholamines and Behavior . 2

    This volume is intended to provide students and investigators of brain-be­ havior relationships with an understanding of the current concepts of the role of catecholamines in the regulation of behavior. Catecholamines are now...
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  • Catecholamines and Behavior . 1 Catecholamines and Behavior . 1
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    Catecholamines and Behavior . 1

    The editor of these volumes has asked me to contribute a brief foreword. When I accepted this honor I suddenly became aware of the enormous progress that has taken place in this field in the 50 years since I began as a medical...
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  • Parasites, Fungi, and Viruses Parasites, Fungi, and Viruses
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    Parasites, Fungi, and Viruses

    The International Society of Chemotherapy meets every two years to review progress in chemotherapy of infections and of malignant disease. Each meeting gets larger to encompass the extension of chemotherapy into new areas. In...
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  • Environments as Therapy for Brain Dysfunction Environments as Therapy for Brain Dysfunction
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    Environments as Therapy for Brain Dysfunction

    At the 1975 Winter Conference on Brain Research a series of workshops were held to discuss the role of the sensory environment in the etiology and therapy of brain dysfunction. The participants represented a broad range of...
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  • Nutrition and Mental Functions Nutrition and Mental Functions
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    Nutrition and Mental Functions

    The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien­ cies was equally oversimplified. Obviously, a disease like rickets, which affected hard tissues--the skeleton-­ had irreversible consequences. Destruction or alteration of...
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  • Neurohumoral Coding of Brain Function Neurohumoral Coding of Brain Function
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    Neurohumoral Coding of Brain Function

    It is indeed a pleasure to welcome all of you to this Inter­ national Symposium on the Neurohumoral coding of Brain Function. Many of you have undertaken a very long trip in order to cross swords with some of the most ...
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  • Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease
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    Brain Chemistry and Mental Disease

    This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth international symposium held in November 1970 at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in Houston. Leading psychiatrists, biochemists, and pharmacologists from the...
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  • Biosynthetic Products for Cancer Chemotherapy Biosynthetic Products for Cancer Chemotherapy
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    Biosynthetic Products for Cancer Chemotherapy

    An overall view of the cancer problem and development of cancer chemothera­ 231 peutic biosynthetic products to February 1976 was presented in Volume 1. In the short time that has elapsed since the preparation of Volume 1,...
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  • Neuropoisons Neuropoisons
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    Neuropoisons

    Poisons are topics of multidisciplinary concern. The clinician and the pathologist are sensitive to instances of human poisoning. The laboratory researcher, whether pharmacologist, physiologist, or biochemist, is oriented...
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  • Tissue Culture of the Nervous System Tissue Culture of the Nervous System
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    Tissue Culture of the Nervous System

    The impetus for compiling this book was the recent development of culture strains of neuroblastoma and glial cells and the immediate and enthusiastic way they have been taken up as model systems. After the first sudden rush of...
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  • Transport Phenomena in the Nervous System Transport Phenomena in the Nervous System
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    Transport Phenomena in the Nervous System

    This book presents the papers that were delivered at the Satellite Symposium of the International Society for Neurochemistry in Padua, September, 1975. Having such Satellite Symposia was a new experiment for the Society, and...
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  • Drugs and the Developing Brain Drugs and the Developing Brain
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    Drugs and the Developing Brain

    The thalidomide tragedy which occurred slightly more than a decade ago made public officials and the general public acutely aware of the teratogenic potential of drugs. Although specialists in pharmacology and developmental...
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  • Behavioral Toxicology Behavioral Toxicology
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    Behavioral Toxicology

    Behavioral toxicology is a young discipline in the United States; so young, in fact, that this is one of its first books. Behavioral questions are bound to play a major role in future scientific work and governmental decisions...
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  • Temporal Aspects of Therapeutics Temporal Aspects of Therapeutics
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    Temporal Aspects of Therapeutics

    Drugs are molecular agents of a physician's purpose. Discussions of their mechanisms of action center upon biochemical processes, even though the therapeutic intent may be to create an effect at a higher level of organization...
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  • Newly Characterized Protist and Invertebrate Viruses Newly Characterized Protist and Invertebrate Viruses
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    Newly Characterized Protist and Invertebrate Viruses

    The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably...
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  • Comprehensive Virology 11 Comprehensive Virology 11
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    Comprehensive Virology 11

    The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably...
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  • Regulation and Genetics Regulation and Genetics
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    Regulation and Genetics

    The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably...
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  • Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology
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    Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology

    In the middle and late 1960s, when it was clear that neuroendocrinology was established as a discipline in its own right, it occurred to us that auto­ biographical accounts of the pioneer work in this field by the major par­...
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  • Modern Fluorescence Spectroscopy Modern Fluorescence Spectroscopy
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    Modern Fluorescence Spectroscopy

    The principles of fluorescence spectroscopy are by now well established, and, after a rather lengthy gestation period, the technique is now routinely applied to a broad spectrum of problems, ranging from mechanistic photo­...
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  • Language and Operational Thought Language and Operational Thought
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    Language and Operational Thought

    This is the second volume in a series that records the official Symposium Pro­ ceedings of the Jean Piaget Society. Like the first volume, this work includes theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of Jean Piaget' s seminal...
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  • Biofeedback and Behavior Biofeedback and Behavior
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    Biofeedback and Behavior

    Biofeedback and Behavior: A NATO Symposium, held on 27-30 July 1976 at the Max Planck Institut fUr Psychiatrie in MUnchen, was a mul­ tidisciplinary meeting that explored both theoretical and applied issues arising from the use...
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  • Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
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    Clinical Diagnosis of Mental Disorders

    For centuries the "treatment" of mentally disturbed individuals was quite simple. They were accused of collusion with evil spirits, hunted, and persecuted. The last "witch" was killed as late as 1782 in Switzerland. Mentally...
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  • Comprehensive Virology Comprehensive Virology
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    Comprehensive Virology

    The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably...
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  • The Origins and Course of Psychopathology The Origins and Course of Psychopathology
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    The Origins and Course of Psychopathology

    The Society for Life History Research in Psychopathology is a group of investigators from many disciplines who share an interest in studying the longitudinal aspects of psychiat­ ric disorder. Sociologists, psychologists,...
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  • The Impulsive Personality The Impulsive Personality
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    The Impulsive Personality

    I began this book with two purposes. One goal was to present clinical information to support the belief that many of society's allegedly unh'eatable people could be helped to change their de­ structive patterns of living. A...
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  • Human Sleep and Its Disorders Human Sleep and Its Disorders
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    Human Sleep and Its Disorders

    In this book we trace the development of several major themes in sleep research, from the first formal description of REM sleep in the early 1950s through the present. Chapter 1 provides those less familiar with this area with...
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  • Coping with Physical Illness Coping with Physical Illness
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    Coping with Physical Illness

    This book discusses how human beings cope with serious physical ill­ ness and injury. A conceptual model for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of illness is provided, and basic adaptive tasks and types of...
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  • Basic Limbic System Anatomy of the Rat Basic Limbic System Anatomy of the Rat
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    Basic Limbic System Anatomy of the Rat

    If this were a traditional textbook of neuroanatomy, many pages would be devoted to a description of the ascending and descending pathways of the spinal cord and several chapters to the organization of the sensory and motor...
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  • The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy
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    The Frontier of Brief Psychotherapy

    When I was a psychiatric resident not long after the end of World War II, any patient with the wits to get himself to a psychiatric clinic was taken into long-term dynamically oriented psychotherapy. Regardless of his diagnosis...
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  • Psychopathology and Child Development Psychopathology and Child Development
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    Psychopathology and Child Development

    The First International Leo Kanner Colloquium on Child Development, Devia­ tions, and Treatment explores relationships between experimental research, normal development, and interventions, with early infantile autism as a...
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  • Explorations in Child Psychiatry Explorations in Child Psychiatry
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    Explorations in Child Psychiatry

    It is a great pleasure for me to write a foreword to thi~ fine work by many dif­ ferent collaborators under the aegis of my friend and one-time colleague in Geneva, Dr. E. James Anthony, because it represents a collective...
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  • Inhibition of Memory Formation Inhibition of Memory Formation
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    Inhibition of Memory Formation

    All animals show longlasting changes in behaviour as a result of individual experience and this adaptability is one of their most striking features. The changes may be abrupt, radical and permanent. In higher animals it seems...
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  • Projective Assessment Projective Assessment
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    Projective Assessment

    I do not think of myself as primarily interested in method, but in the substance of psychology. Nevertheless, our discipline has such difficulties in coming to grips with its substance that I have found myself getting involved...
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