Título: The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain
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Sinopse: A thought-provoking treatise on understanding and treating the aging mind and brain This handbook recognizes the critical issues surrounding mind and brain health by tackling overarching and pragmatic needs so as to better understand these multifaceted issues. This includes summarizing and synthesizing critical evidence, approaches, and strategies from multidisciplinary research—all of which have advanced our understanding of the neural substrates of attention, perception, memory, language, decision-making, motor behavior, social cognition, emotion, and other mental functions. Written by a plethora of health experts from around the world, The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain offers in-depth contributions in 7 sections: Introduction; Methods of Assessment; Brain Functions and Behavior across the Lifespan; Cognition, Behavior and Disease; Optimizing Brain Function in Health and Disease; Forensics, Competence, Legal, Ethics and Policy Issues; and Conclusion and New Directions. Geared toward improving the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of many brain-based disorders that occur in older adults and that cause disability and death Seeks to advance the care of patients who have perceptual, cognitive, language, memory, emotional, and many other behavioral symptoms associated with these disorders Addresses principles and practice relevant to challenges posed by the US National Academy of Sciences and National Institute of Aging (NIA) Presents materials at a scientific level that is appropriate for a wide variety of providers The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain is an important text for neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, physiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and other primary caregivers who care for patients in routine and specialty practices as well as students, interns, residents, and fellows.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain”, de $undefined, publicado pela editora Wiley-Blackwell, em 2018 e com 848 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Wiley-Blackwell
Páginas: 848
Ano: 2018
Edição: 1
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781118771778
ISBN13: 9781118771778
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Wiley-Blackwell costumam apresentar uma abordagem aprofundada e especializada, com forte presença de obras acadêmicas e técnicas. A leitura frequentemente envolve temas complexos, como filosofia, ciências da vida, ciências sociais e tecnologia, com textos que combinam rigor conceitual e detalhamento prático. A experiência de leitura varia entre ensaios filosóficos densos e manuais ilustrados, com um tom que vai do didático ao crítico, sempre ancorado em discussões contemporâneas e interdisciplinaridade. O catálogo indica uma preferência por obras que dialogam com públicos acadêmicos e profissionais, que buscam tanto fundamentos teóricos quanto aplicações concretas em suas áreas.
