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Although there are over 400,000 people each year in the United States alone who suffer from traumatic injury to the central nervous system (CNS), no phar macological treatment is currently available. Considering the enormity of the problem in terms of human tragedy as well as the economic burden to families and societies alike, it is surprising that so little effort is being made to develop treatments for these disorders. Although no one can become inured to the victims of brain or spinal cord injuries, one reason that insufficient time and effort have been devoted to research on recovery is that it is a generally held medical belief that nervous system injuries are simply not amenable to tr...
The Handbook of Clinical Neurology volume on traumatic brain injury (TBI) provides the reader with an updated review of emerging approaches to traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, clinical management and rehabilitation of the traumatic brain injury patient. Chapters in this volume range from epidemiology and pathological mechanisms of injury, and neuroprotection to long-term outcomes with a strong emphasis on current neurobiological approaches to describing the consequences and mechanisms of recovery from TBI. The book presents contemporary investigations on blast injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, making this state-of-the-art volume a must have for clinicians and researchers con...
Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.
Endogenous and Exogenous Opiate Agonists and Antagonists documents the proceedings of the International Narcotic Research Club Conference, held in North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA, on 11-15 June 1979. The volume begins with a discussion of the programs of the World Health Organization, with an emphasis on the components of its drug dependence program. The 139 papers discussed at the conference are then presented. These papers are organized into 10 parts. The papers in Part I examine structure-activity relationships. Part II contains studies on receptor binding while Part III deals with the localization and characterization of active sites. Part IV focuses on ligands and receptor isolation. Part 5 examines neurochemical interactions. Part VI presents papers on disposition and metabolism. Parts VII and VIII take up analgetic mechanisms and neuroendocrine relationships, respectively. Part IX focuses on behavioral effects while the studies in Part X cover tolerance and physical dependence.
In this book, Rhodes provides a nonevaluative account of coercion. He begins with a thorough discussion of the charge that coercion is an essentially contested concept. He argues that effective communication of regulations pertaining to human conduct requires a basic level of clarity as to the kind of conduct being regulated. Accordingly, he argues that before we prescribe or proscribe conduct, we should describe it. In short, he maintains that wherever possible description should precede prescription and proscription. Rhodes begins his descriptive project by providing a fundamental account of human motivation. Upon this foundation he supports his distinctions between threats, offers, throff...