The Invisible Crippling of Multiple Sclerosis

• Author : Henrietta Adams
• Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Release Date : 2016-04-06
• ISBN : 1523771070

For many people, the words "multiple sclerosis" conjure up images of wheelchairs and other adaptive devices associated with physical disabilities. And while many people certainly do suffer a loss of muscular function as a result of this often-debilitating condition, the body is not the only thing affected by this disease of the central nervous system. For thirteen years, successful career woman Henrietta Adams went through life unaware that her relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis was causing serious cognitive and emotional impairment. Since

• Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Nervous System Disorders in Developing Countries
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release Date : 2001-01-01
• ISBN : 0309170931

Brain disordersâ€"neurological, psychiatric, and developmentalâ€"now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet public and private health systems in developing countries have paid relatively little attention to brain disorders. The negative attitudes, prejudice, and stigma that often surround many of these disorders have contributed to this neglect. Lacking proper diagnosis and treatment, millions of individual lives are lost to disability and death. Such conditions exact

• Author : National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2013-08-01
• ISBN : 1909726036

Social anxiety disorder is persistent fear of (or anxiety about) one or more social situations that is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the situation and can be severely detrimental to quality of life. Only a minority of people with social anxiety disorder receive help. Effective treatments do exist and this book aims to increase identification and assessment to encourage more people to access interventions. Covers adults, children and young people and compares the effects of pharmacological

• Author : Ellen Nolte,Cécile Knai,Martin McKee
• Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
• Release Date : 2008
• ISBN : 9789289042949

This book examines the health system response to the rising burden of chronic disease in eight countries. It provides a detailed assessment of the current situation, a description of the policy framework and future scenarios, as well as evaluation and lessons learned.

• Author : Velio Bocci
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2010-10-05
• ISBN : 9789048192342

Oxygen-Ozone therapy is a complementary approach less known than homeopathy and acupuncture because it has come of age only three decades ago. This book clarifies that, in the often nebulous field of natural medicine, the biological bases of ozone therapy are totally in line with classical biochemistry, physiological and pharmacological knowledge. Ozone is an oxidizing molecule, a sort of super active oxygen, which, by reacting with blood components generates a number of chemical messengers responsible for activating crucial biological functions

• Author : Ann Miles
• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• Release Date : 2013-05-15
• ISBN : 9780292748880

Once associated only with the wealthy and privileged in Latin America, lifelong illnesses are now emerging among a wider cross section of the population as an unfortunate consequence of growing urbanization and increased life expectancy. One of these diseases is the chronic autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Difficult to diagnose and harder still to effectively manage, lupus challenges the very foundations of women’s lives, their real and imagined futures, and their carefully constructed gendered identities. While the illness is validated

• Author : Steven G. Gilbert
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2004-02-18
• ISBN : 9780203461730

Everyday, we come into contact with many relatively harmless substances that could, at certain concentrations, be toxic. This applies not only to obvious candidates such as asbestos, lead, and gasoline, but also to compounds such as caffeine and headache tablets. While the field of toxicology has numerous texts devoted to aspects of biology, chemis

• Author : Nikole Benders-Hadi,Mary E. Barber
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2014-08-01
• ISBN : 9783319013183

Despite the importance of regaining social roles during recovery from mental illness, the intersection between motherhood and serious mental illness is often overlooked. This book aims to rectify that neglect. A series of introductory chapters describing current research and services available to mothers with serious mental illness are followed by personal accounts of clients reflecting on their parenting experiences. One goal of the book is to provide clinicians with information that they can use to help patients struggling with questions

• Author : Porochista Khakpour
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2018-06-05
• ISBN : 9780062428721

A Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Review, and LitHub. Time Magazine's Best Memoirs of 2018 • Boston Globe's 25 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 • Buzzfeed's 33 Most Exciting New Books • GQ Best Non Fiction Book of 2018 • Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 list • Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 • Electric Literature’s 46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018 “Porochista Khakpour’s powerful memoir, Sick, reads like

• Author : Gabor Maté, MD
• Publisher : Vintage Canada
• Release Date : 2011-02-11
• ISBN : 9780307374707

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness. Western medicine achieves spectacular triumphs when dealing with acute conditions such as fractured bones or life-threatening infections. It is less successful against ailments not susceptible to the quick ministrations of scalpel, antibiotic or miracle drug. Trained

• Author : Patrizia Pallaro
• Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Release Date : 1999-05-01
• ISBN : 9781846429927

Patrizia Pallaro's second volume of essays on Authentic Movement, eight years after her first, is a tour de force. It is indeed "an extraordinary array of papers", as Pallaro puts it, and an immensely rich, moving and highly readable sweep through the landscapes of Authentic Movement, "this form of creative expression, meditative discipline and/or psychotherapeutic endeavour". You don't need to practice Authentic Movement to get a lot out of this book, but it certainly helps! I defy anyone to

• Author : Ann Boroch
• Publisher : SCB Distributors
• Release Date : 2011-06
• ISBN : 9780977344628

Multiple Sclerosis can now be healed and this book shows you how. Though MS is widely believed to be incurable, Boroch's breakthrough treatment protocol can dramatically restore patients to health. This landmark book describes her own tumultuous journey with MS: • Her quest for a cure • Case histories of those who have triumphed over MS • The real causes of MS • How to develop a personal treatment plan • Everything you need to bring about recovery, including a detailed and effective self-help treatment

• Author : National Organization for Rare Disorders
• Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0781730635

NORD Guide to Rare Disorders is a comprehensive, practical, authoritative guide to the diagnosis and management of more than 800 rare diseases. The diseases are discussed in a uniform, easy-to-follow format--a brief description, signs and symptoms, etiology, related disorders, epidemiology, standard treatment, investigational treatment, resources, and references.The book includes a complete directory of orphan drugs, a full-color atlas of visual diagnostic signs, and a Master Resource List of support groups and helpful organizations. An index of symptoms and key words

• Author : World Health Organization
• Publisher : World Health Organization
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 9789241563369

Although there are several gaps in understanding the many issues related to neurological disorders, we know enough to be able to shape effective policy responses to some of the most common. This book describes and discusses the increasing public health impact of common neurological disorders such as dementia, epilepsy, headache disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuroinfections, neurological disorders associated with malnutrition, pain associated with neurological disorders, Parkinson's disease, stroke and traumatic brain injuries. It provides information and advice on public health interventions

• Author : Gabrielle Union
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2017-10-17
• ISBN : 9780062694003

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir “A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced.” — Lena Dunham, Lenny Letter In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender,