Recent Research in Personality Disorders, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics

Joel Paris "Recent Research in Personality Disorders, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics"
Saunders | 2008-09-15 | ISBN: 1416063455 | 192pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

This issue on Recent Research on Personality Behaviors discusses diagnosis, epidemiology, etiology, outcome and treatment for these perplexing disorders. Topics include: Diagnosis: Dimensional diagnosis for PDs, Improving categorical diagnosis of PDs, Separating traits from personality disorders. Epidemiology: The community prevalence of PDs, The clinical prevalence of PDs. Etiology: Genetics of PDs, Neurobiological and imaging studies, The neurobiology of psychopathy, Child development and PDs. Outcome: The long-term outcome of PDs, Mechanisms of recovery in PDs. Treatment: Pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments, Managing suicidality, Future directions in PD research.

Clinical Diabetes Research: Methods and Techniques

Clinical Diabetes Research: Methods and Techniques
Publisher: Wiley | 2007-09-17 | ISBN: 0470017287| Pages: 422 | PDF | 4.5 Mb

 

Clinical Diabetes Research: Methods and Techniques provides summaries of established state-of-the art-techniques and introduces the new technologies, evaluating their potential in clinical diabetes research. One section compares the efficacy of all metabolic tests that measure insulin action. Another section describes methods that allow quantification of whole body and intracellular metabolic fluxes relevant to diabetes research. The final section focuses on the planning and pitfalls of clinical studies in the field of metabolism. Each chapter throughout the book combines the theoretical basis of the approach with practical recommendations. There are further chapters on the design of clinical trials and ethical considerations.