Published July, 2015
By Robert Trestman, Kenneth Appelbaum and Jeffrey Metzner
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry
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The Oxford Textbook of Correctional Psychiatry brings together leading experts to provide a comprehensive and practical review of common clinical, organizational, and ethical issues in correctional psychiatry. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive and authorative overview of the field.

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Published July, 2015
By Nicole Avena
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Broad in scope, Hedonic Eating: How the Pleasure of Food Affects our Brains and Behaviorexplores various behavioral, biological and social rewards of food.

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Published July, 2015
By Geetha Jayaram
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Clinically focused for everyday use in psychiatric care, Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry covers all problematic aspects of care delivery in an easy-to-read format featuring vivid case study examples.

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Published July, 2015
By Charles Scott, Dr Charles L Scott, M.D., Chief Division of Psychiatry and the Law Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Charles Scott and Dr Charles Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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DSM-5 (R) and the Law summarizes DSM-5 changes and discusses how these changes impact individuals with mental disorders involved in either criminal or civil litigation. Practical guidelines are provided on how to correctly use the DSM-5 diagnostic process to record diagnoses in a forensic report and how to assess malingering of DSM-5 diagnoses.

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Published July, 2015
By Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine-for which he never fully got credit-to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

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Published June, 2015
By Robert J. Vallerand and Dr Robert J. Vallerand
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Series in Positive Psychology
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In The Psychology of Passion, Robert J. Vallerand provides a complete presentation of the Dualistic Model of Passion and reports on the empirical evidence supporting the theory. Vallerand highlights the effects of two types of passion-harmonious and obsessive-on a number of psychological phenomena, such as cognition, emotions, performance, relationships, aggression, and violence.

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Published June, 2015
By Benjamin Bolker and Marta Wayne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Very Short Introductions
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In this Very Short Introduction Benjamin Bolker and Marta L. Wayne explore the world of infectious disease, from viruses and bacteria to protists and fungi. Taking an ecological and evolutionary viewpoint, they use case studies to explore how outbreaks are managed and how newly emergent strains might be controlled.

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Published June, 2015
By Chris Eliasmith
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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How to Build a Brain provides a guided exploration of a new cognitive architecture that takes biological detail seriously while addressing cognitive phenomena. The Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA) introduced in this book provides a set of tools for constructing a wide range of biologically constrained perceptual, cognitive, and motor models.

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Published June, 2015
By David A. Ross, Peter G. Smith and Richard H. Morrow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Available as an open access book via Oxford Medicine Online, 'Field Trials of Health Interventions' is an essential 'toolbox' for the design, conduct, and analysis of field trials in low and middle income countries.

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Published June, 2015
By Luigi F. Agnati, Joseph P. Huston, Marcos Nadal, Francisco Mora and Camilo Jose Cela Conde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book brings together experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy to explore these questions. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics.

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