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

Author:

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.

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

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 Sixth Mental Measurements Yearbook
The Sixth Mental Measurements Yearbook

Author: Buros Buros Center

Publisher: Buros Center for Testing

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780910674065

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Customers who place a standing order for the Tests in Print series or the Mental Measurements Yearbook series will receive a 10% discount on every volume. To place your standing order, please call 1-800-848-6224 (in the U.S.) or 919-966-7449 (outside the U.S.). The most widely acclaimed reference series in education and psychology, the Mental Measurements Yearbooks are designed to assist professionals in selecting and using standardized tests. The series, initiated in 1938, provides factual information, critical reviews, and comprehensive bibliographic references on the construction, use, and validity of all tests published in English. The objectives of the Mental Measurements Yearbooks have remained essentially the same since the publication of the series. These objectives include provision to test users of: factual information on all known tests published as separates in the English-speaking countries of the world candidly critical test reviews written for the MMY series by qualified professional people representing a variety of viewpoints unique publication of each volume in the MMY series with new volumes supplementing rather than supplanting previous series volumes. Each yearbook is a unique publication, supplementing rather than supplanting the previous volumes.

Tests in Print VIII
Tests in Print VIII

Author: Linda L. Murphy

Publisher: Buros Center for Testing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780910674621

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'Tests in Print VIII' contains information on more than 3000 tests. Detailed descriptions of each test include specific data on purpose, target population, scoring, and pricing. Indexes of test titles, publishers, acronyms, and subject classifications are provided as well as notations on out-of-print tests.

Tests in Print IX
Tests in Print IX

Author: Nancy Anderson

Publisher: Buros Center for Testing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780910674652

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The most comprehensive index to commercially available tests published in English, this volume contains information on more than three thousand testing instruments. Detailed descriptions of each test include specific data on its purpose, target population, scoring, and pricing. Indexes of test titles, publishers, acronyms, and subject classifications are provided as well as notations on out-of-print tests. This book provides the specific information about testing required by professionals in diverse areas such as education, psychology, counseling, management, personnel, health care, career planning, sociology, child development, social science, and research. It also serves as a comprehensive index to the Mental Measurements Yearbook series by directing readers to the appropriate volume for reviews of specific tests --