Published June, 2006
By Peter Mossey, Gareth Holsgrove, Elizabeth Davenport and David Stirrups
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Essential Skills for Dentists, comprehensively covers all the core skills that a student must master to practice dentistry. The book is divided into three sections; generic skills, discipline specific skills, and integrated skills, this allows students to 'dip into' specific chapters and topics on a stand-alone basis.

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Published June, 2006
By Richard Appleton and Tony Baldwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This new edition provides a detailed account of brain injuries in children. It considers how common they are and why they occur. It also provides a comprehensive description of how the physical, communicative, educational, and behavioural effects are managed, in both the short- and long-term.

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Published May, 2006
By Raquel E. Gur and Ann Braden Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Adolescent Mental Health Initiative
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A guide to understanding and helping a teenager with schizophrenia. This work is designed for parents of teens who have been diagnosed with this complicated illness, or who are at risk of developing it, and for other adults, such as teachers and guidance counsellors, who are in contact with at-risk adolescents.

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Published May, 2006
By Yosef Grodzinsky and Katrin Amunts
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Paul Broca, the discoverer of Broca's region, was one of the first scientists to equate a significant piece of behaviour articulated language with a piece of neural tissue. This volume creates a picture of the state of contemporary knowledge on the structure and function of the region and its implications for our understanding of the human brain.

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Published May, 2006
By Michael W. Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Describes both the intricate events underlying normal development of the nervous system and how alcohol and nicotine interfere with that development. This book highlights the plasticity and resilience of the developing brain, as well as the targeted effects of each toxin. It also explores these effects.

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Published May, 2006
By Lisa Seachrist Chiu and Lisa Chiu
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Presents stories that show the role and interest of identified genes and suites of genes acting to dictate behaviour, diseases, and the course of an individual's life. A genetic primer provides background information on genes as well as details about how genes serve as blueprints guiding many aspects of our lives.

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Published May, 2006
By Mike W. Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Practical and Professional Ethics
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Asks the question: are we replacing morality with therapy, in potentially confusing and dangerous ways, or are we creatively integrating morality and mental health? This work focuses on practical concerns like love, work, self-respect, self-fulfillment, guilt, depression, crime, violence, and addictions.

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Published May, 2006
By Mathew Thomson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-century Britain. Ranging from the excitement about a new age at the start of the century to the permissive society of the 1970s, it offers us a new picture of how Britons of the period came to think about themselves and their world psychologically.

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Published May, 2006
By Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green and Stephen Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Published May, 2006
By Sidney Bloch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Introduction to the Psychotherapies is the leading introductory text to the field. In short, accessible, chapters by leading practitioners, it outlines the leading therapies, noting for each one the definitions, aims, assessment, and practice, coupled with the essential references. For this edition the chapters have been extensively revised and updated.

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