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This book addresses and synthesizes recent basic, translational, and clinical research with the goal of understanding the mechanisms behind autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how they lead to altered brain function and behavior. Bringing clarity to these mechanisms will lead to more effective therapies for the various heterogeneous pathologies that comprise ASD. Currently there are few, if any, proven therapies for the majority of the disorders. Among the topic addressed are neural plasticity, neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, neuroimaging, and appropriate animal and genetic models.
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy explores the complicated health disparities and reproductive injustice that led to these cases of congenital Zika syndrome. Löwy examines the history of the outbreak in Brazil and connects it to broader questions conc...
O momento singular que o Mundo testemunha trouxe consigo desafios de toda ordem. O desencadeamento de medidas uniformes em todos os continentes ante o que se convencionou nominar “pandemia da COVID-19”, impôs o enfrentamento de embaraços imprevisíveis até últimos meses do ano de 2019. Retração econômica, desemprego, redução na arrecadação de tributos, sobrecarga no sistema de saúde e limitação ao direito de ir e vir foram as principais dificuldades. As soluções, das diversas naturezas, mostraram-se satisfatórias, particularmente considerando o exíguo tempo de que se dispunha para executá-las, de forma a minorar os efeitos das medidas restritivas adotadas pelo Poder P...
Organizadoras: Bruna Carolina de Lima Siqueira dos Santos Iáscara Oara de Jesus Michel Foucault e costuras contemporâneas é um convite para a discussão teórica sobre temas que envolvem questões sociais e culturais na atualidade. Os pensamentos apresentados e costurados aqui, foram organizados com a perspectiva de capturar experimentos e exercícios ensaísticos que nascem de diferentes reflexões e se transformam em artigos. “Tecnologias do eu” com ênfase nas práticas de “cuidado de si” difundidas em tempos/espaços múltiplos que passam a afirmar verdades e pós verdades sobre si mesmo. 978-65-5939-064-9 (brochura) DOI: 10.31560/pimentacultural/2021.656
If you think you know what positive psychology is, think again! This book offers a new integrative vision for making life better that takes in the body and the brain, culture and society, childhood and development... A must read for students." - Stephen Joseph, University of Nottingham "Captures the best of the positive psychology initiative, and most importantly, translates it to practice. The authors bring remarkable depth and breadth to the subject matter and do so in a way that is fresh, engaging, relevant, and unusually thoughtful." - Carol Ryff, University of Wisconsin-Madison "If you want to understand what positive psychology really is, learn how it works in practice and discover its...
The first and only synthesis of prevention research and methodology, this timely volume examines programs targeting eight of today's most pressing problems that affect infants, children, and youth.;
When Handbook of Normative Data for Neuropsychological Assessment was published in 1999, it was the first book to provide neuropsychologists with summaries and critiques of normative data for neuropsychological tests. The Second Edition, which has been revised and updated throughout, presents data for 26 commonly used neuropsychological tests, including: Trailmaking, Color Trails, Stroop Color Word Interference, Auditory Consonant Trigrams, Paced Auditory Serial Addition, Ruff 2 and 7, Digital Vigilance, Boston Naming, Verbal Fluency, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure, Hooper Visual Fluency, Design Fluency, Tactual Performance, Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised, Rey Auditory-Verbal learning, Hopkins...
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