Wellons, Jay
Summary: "Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLONS, JAY WELMaloney, Beth Alison.
Summary: The summer before entering sixth grade, Sammy, a bright and charming boy, suddenly began to exhibit disturbing behaviors. His mother, Beth, already overwhelmed by the responsibility of raising three sons alone, watched helplessly as her middle child descended into madness. Sammy was soon diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and later with Tourette syndrome. Unwilling to accept the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALONEY, BETH ALISON MALSummary: This course takes you inside this astonishingly complex organ to show you how it works. Recent decades have seen unparalleled advances in understanding how the brain does what it does. Today we can pinpoint the specific regions, or nuclei, where some of life's most mysterious processes take place, including: where light that enters the eye is converted into the subjective experience of sight;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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Brett, Flora
Summary: "Engaging text and informative images help readers learn about their nervous system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.8 BREOrbuch, Iris Kerin
Summary: Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain and may lead to infertility. The average woman may suffer for years before receiving an accurate diagnosis, then she's often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for surgery. Orbuch and Stein address the disease's host of co-existing conditions through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.1 ORBMason, Jenny
Summary: "Discover the main systems of our amazing human body with this new series of books!The human brain is a natural wonder - the command center that, through a network of nerves, runs every other system in our bodies. Did you know that there are 100,000,000,000 neurons in your brain? Or that your funny bone is actually a nerve in the elbow, not a bone? Learn all this and more in Nervous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Toxic chemicals are found in almost all commercial cleaners--the very products you buy to make your home hygenic and healthy. Homemade Cleaners offers a better solution. Its tips, tricks and formulas guarantee to make your home sparkling and germ-free. Homemade Cleaners features over 150 recipes that are toxic-free, simple and affordable, highly effective, environmentally sound, kid and baby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.5 OBRSpilsbury, Richard
Summary: Multiple sclerosis, a progressive autoimmune disorder that affects the central nervous system, usually develops between the ages of twenty and fifty. This guide to multiple sclerosis describes the difference between the four types of the disease and how sufferers can manage their symptoms through medications such as corticosteroids. Though scientists are unsure what causes MS or how to prevent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central 2019
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Summary: In thirty-six each half hour lectures, Professor Sam Wang explores the science and mystery of the human nervous system, from essential neurochemical and neurobiological processes to the psychological and social constructs they are thought to produce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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Midthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the nervous system of the human body"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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Summary: "In 1880 in Vienna, young Bertha Pappenheim lost her ability to control her voice and body and was treated by Sigmund Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, who diagnosed her with "hysteria." Pappenheim and Breuer developed what she called "the talking cure"-talking out memories so that symptoms go away-which became the basis for psychoanalysis. Brownstein describes Pappenheim as a brilliant feminist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2024