Chagas' Disease and the Nervous System
Chagas' Disease and the Nervous System

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Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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This publication presents an up-to-date and in-depth review of the effects of Chargas' disease on the nervous system, highlighting the alterations seen in patients as well as the mechanisms by which the pathology is produced. Following an overview of the public health problems posed by Chagas' disease (also knows as American trypanosomiasis) and how they are being addressed, the book describes studies of specific alterations in autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous functios produced by chagasic infection in humans, including childre suffering from congenital infection. The next section presents the latest findings on the possible role fo the body's immune response in the genesis of nervous tissue lesions in Chagas' disease. The final two chapters discuss studies of nervous system pathology in two experimental models, mice and monkeys, and how they can enhance understanding of the infection in humans. Researchers in immunology, neurology, and parasitic diseases will find this book to be a compendium of state-of-the-art knowledge, and it will provide physicians and other health professionals who may encounter persons afficted with this widespread parasitosis with valuable insight into these patients' conditions.

Testimonios de enseñar y aprender
Testimonios de enseñar y aprender

Author: Ana Diamant

Publisher: Teseo

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9871354525

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En esta obra, la autora recorre, desde las memorias de testigos y protagonistas -estudiantes y docentes de entonces-, el camino que siguió la psicología para, desde la creación de la Carrera en la UBA en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, constituirse en una profesión, con un campo disciplinario y práctico propio. La recolección y el análisis de testimonios originales ponen una marca distintiva a esta producción que así aporta al debate sobre el pasado y el futuro de la Universidad.

Perspectives on Personality
Perspectives on Personality

Author: Charles S. Carver

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789353067854

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"Perspectives on Personality describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today, and helps students understand how these viewpoints can be applied to their own lives. Authors Charles Carver and Michael Scheier dedicate a chapter to each major perspective, presenting an overview on the perspective's orienting assumptions and core themes and concluding with a discussion of problems within that theoretical viewpoint and predictions about its future prospects. The Eighth edition incorporates several important recent developments in the field, including genetics and genomics and the biological underpinnings of impulsiveness"--Back cover

The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry
The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry

Author: Steven M. Kaplan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415587747

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The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry contains over 100,000 entries making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind. The Dictionary provides concise, comprehensive and current coverage of every word or phrase used in the study and practice of psychiatry and psychology. This valuable reference tool covers all disciplines and sub-disciplines, both research-based and clinical. This is a vital resource to those in the healthcare professions, to academicians and to those who work in translation and/or interpretation, healthcare and the law who are in contact with the English and Spanish speaking communities.

On the Self-Regulation of Behavior
On the Self-Regulation of Behavior

Author: Charles S. Carver

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-05-07

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521000994

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This book presents a thorough overview of a model of human functioning based on the idea that behavior is goal-directed and regulated by feedback control processes. It describes feedback processes and their application to behavior, considers goals and the idea that goals are organized hierarchically, examines affect as deriving from a different kind of feedback process, and analyzes how success expectancies influence whether people keep trying to attain goals or disengage. Later sections consider a series of emerging themes, including dynamic systems as a model for shifting among goals, catastrophe theory as a model for persistence, and the question of whether behavior is controlled or instead 'emerges'. Three chapters consider the implications of these various ideas for understanding maladaptive behavior, and the closing chapter asks whether goals are a necessity of life. Throughout, theory is presented in the context of diverse issues that link the theory to other literatures.

The Understanding of Nature
The Understanding of Nature

Author: Marjorie Grene

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9401022240

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No student or colleague of Marjorie Grene will miss her incisive presence in these papers on the study and nature of living nature, and we believe the new reader will quickly join the stimulating discussion and critique which Professor Grene steadily provokes. For years she has worked with equally sure knowledge in the classical domain of philosophy and in modern epistemological inquiry, equally philosopher of science and metaphysician. Moreover, she has the deeply sensible notion that she should be a critically intelligent learner as much as an imaginatively original thinker, and as a result she has brought insightful expository readings of other philosophers and scientists to her own work. We were most fortunate that Marjorie Grene was willing to spend a full semester of a recent leave here in Boston, and we have on other occasions sought her participation in our colloquia and elsewhere. Now we have the pleasure of including among the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science this generous selection from Grene's philosophical inquiries into the understanding of the natural world, and of the men and women in it. Boston University Center for the R. S. COHEN Philosophy and History of Science M. W. W ARTOFSKY April 1974 PREFACE This collection spans - spottily - years from 1946 ('On Some Distinctions between Men and Brutes') to 1974 ('On the Nature of Natural Necessity').