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Estrogen Effects in Psychiatric Disorders
A number of studies, mostly focusing on estrogen replacement therapy in women, have reported beneficial actions of these hormones on various neurobiological and neuropathological parameters in health and disease. Recent research has focused on gender differences and there is increasing evidence that estrogens exert protective effects in schizophrenia. Hormonal fluctuations or lack of estrogen may increase the risk of depression among vulnerable women. Treatment of depression with estrogen may stabilize and restore disrupted homeostasis – as during post-partum, premenstrual, or perimenopausal conditions – and act as a psychomodulator to offset vulnerability to dysphoric mood when estrogen levels are significantly decreased, as in the case of postmenopausal women. Studies on the effect of estrogens on Alzheimer’s Disease are still rather controversial, they do, however, facilitate the hypothesis that estrogens may have a modifying effect on the onset and course of AD, at least in subgroups of patients.
NeuroPsychopharmacotherapy
This book provides a reference guide describing the current status of medication in all major psychiatric and neurological indications, together with comparisons of pharmacological treatment strategies in clinical settings in Europe, USA, Japan and China. In addition, it highlights herbal medicine as used in China and Japan, as well as complementary medicine and nutritional aspects. This novel approach offers international readers a global approach in a single dedicated publication and is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in comparing treatments for psychiatric disorders in three different cultural areas. There are three volumes devoted to Basic Principles and General Aspects, offering a general overview of psychopharmacotherapy (Vol. 1); Classes, Drugs and Special Aspects covering the role of psychotropic drugs in the field of psychiatry and neurology (Vol. 2) and Applied Psychopharmacotherapy focusing on applied psychopharmacotherapy (Vol. 3). These books are invaluable to psychiatrists, neurologists, neuroscientists, medical practitioners and clinical psychologists.
Public Information Messages
Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today's societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to never ever drink and drive, to slow down and to learn to say no. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpus of state-run national public information campaigns in Germany and Ireland. A taxonomy of moves is developed inductively and the interactional features of the genre are analysed and related to the context of use. The comprehensive discussion of theoretical and methodological issues, the in-depth analysis and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to researchers and students in (contrastive) discourse analysis, (cross-cultural) pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, advertising, social psychology, mass communication and media studies. Copy-writers will also profit from the insights gained, particularly within the context of an increase in Europe-wide public information campaigns.
Newton's Principia Revisited
PROBLEM. The treatise is devoted to the reconstruction of our 'instinctive beliefs' in classical mechanics and to present them 'as much isolated and as free from irrelevant additions as possible'. The same motivation has driven many authors since the publication of Newton's Principia. IMPORTANCE. Classical mechanics will remain the basic reference and tool for mechanics on terrestrial and planetary scale as well as the proto-theory of relativistic and quantum mechanics. But it can only serve its purpose if it is not considered as obsolete, but if its foundations and implications are understood and made 'absolutely' clear. METHOD. Based on the 'instinctive belief' that the foundations of clas...
Handbook of Intercultural Communication
In today’s globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effective intercultural communication is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for social harmony and organisational success. This handbook takes a ?problem-solving? approach to the various issues that arise in real-life intercultural interaction. The editors have brought together experts from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology and anthropology, to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the field, whilst simultaneously anchoring it in Applied Linguistics. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of intercultural communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field
Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Tourism
This comprehensive Handbook provides an international perspective on contemporary issues and future directions in teaching and learning in tourism. Key topics include assurance of learning, development of skills, learning in the field, work integrated learning, sustainability and critical studies, internationalisation, technology enabled learning, links between teaching and research, and graduate student supervision. Within these topics attention is devoted to the discussion of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, students, educators and trends and issues. The Handbook provides a valuable resource for understanding teaching and learning theory and practice in tourism.
Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Interkulturelle Kommunikation ist mittlerweile an mehreren deutschen Universitäten vertreten, wozu nicht zuletzt das stetig anwachsende Interesse an interkulturellen Themen und Problemen beigetragen hat. Interkulturelle Kommunikation ist ein interdisziplinäres Studienfach, das sich in Deutschland aus den Fächern Ethnologie, Psychologie, Linguistik, Philologie, Pädagogik, Wirtschaftswissenschaft u.a. entwickelt hat bzw. innerhalb dieser Fächer als Spezialisierung betrieben wird. Zu fragen ist also, ob trotz der Vielfalt der Fachorientierungen gemeinsame Wissensbestände existieren und welche Gemeinsamkeiten hinsichtlich der Basisannahmen, Theorien und Methoden benannt werden können. Die...
Weltkultur und Weltgesellschaft
Die zunehmende Dichte weltweiter direkter wie indirekter Interaktionen hat Soziologen und andere Wissenschaftler zur Reflexion und genaueren Analyse der damit verbundenen komplexen und manchmal widersprüchlichen Prozesse angeregt. Bislang bedeutet kulturelle Globalisierung die Diffusion der in Europa entstandenen und in Nordamerika weiterentwickelten Kultur der Moderne, von grundlegenden Werten wie Rationalität und Individualität, aber auch von Wissenschaftsverständnis und populärer Kultur. Bei näherer Betrachtung zeigen sich jedoch Vorgänge wie Transformation und Rekombination, Widerspruch und Widerstand in den übrigen Teilen der Welt und Selbstreflexion wie Selbstkorrektur in der "Ersten Welt". Gleichzeitig wird deutlich, daß die großen Probleme der Zukunft "Weltprobleme" sind, die nur über einen globalen Konsens, den Kern einer "Weltkultur", und den Aufbau weltweit akzeptierter Institutionen, den Repräsentanten einer "Weltgesellschaft", eingedämmt oder vielleicht sogar gelöst werden können.
