A guide to alternative medicine and the digestive system

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Steven P. Roose, Robert A. Glick

The concept of anxiety has long held a central place in psychoanalytic theories of mind and treatment. Yet, in recent years, data from the neurosciences and from pharmacological studies have posed a compelling challenge to psychoanalytic models of anxiety. One major outcome of these studies is the realization that anxiety both organizes and disorganizes, that it can be both signal and symptom. In Anxiety as Symptom and Signal, editors Steven Roose and Robert Glick have brought together distinguished contributors to address these different dimensions of our contemporary understanding of anxiety. A section of original papers on "Anxiety as Symptom" covers evolutionary, neuroanatomical, genetic, and developmental perspectives. A complementary section on "Anxiety as Signal" focuses on the meanings and functions of anxiety in the clinical process; contributions address anxiety in its ego-psychological, intersubjective, and relational dimensions. This illuminating, readable collection will broaden clinicians' awareness of the diverse research findings that now inform our understanding of anxiety. No less importantly, it will deepen their appreciation of the richly variegated ways that anxiety can shape, and be shaped by, the clinical process.

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Jeffrey M. Drazen, Sven-Erik Dahlen, Tak H. Lee

A critical reference for every asthma researcher and clinician, Five-Lipoxygenase Products in Asthma highlights agents and products of the 5-LO pathway and its relationship to other pathways ... explores the enzymology of the 5-LO pathway with focus on leukotriene transport, degradation, and excretion ... details the role of protein identification in the 5-LO pathway ... describes human cell types that produce leukotrienes and their activation ... outlines pharmacological and binding study evidence for leukotriene receptors ... discusses the recovery of leukotrienes in lung disease ... analyzes leukotriene receptor antagonists and synthesis inhibitors by specific agent ... provides a "by entity" summary of individual drug information in exercise-induced, allergen-induced, aspirin-induced, and chronic stable asthma ... profiles the use of agents active on the 5-LO pathway in asthma treatment ... and more.

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Linus Pauling

Details a simple and inexpensive way to extend life by twenty to thirty vital years through proper nutrition, the use of vitamins, and other methods.

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D. Todd Wylie

"...Within these pages, Dr. D. Todd Wylie, OD, FCOVD - an optometrist and leading expert in vision therapy - explores and explains the many causes of poor vision, as well as the pioneering therapy and revolutionary corrective lenses that solve even the most bizarre cases and symptoms. In 'If Your Eyes Could Talk', you will find the answers to baffling mysteries such as why a person with 20/20 eyesight could still be failing in school due to a vision problem; how anxiety or panic attacks could be caused by a vision problem; and how looking at a particular color of light for eight minutes a day can literally change a person's life. To find these answers and many, many more, all you need to do is open this book and listen to the secrets that your eyes have to tell. Before you know it, you'll be viewing the world of vision health through a whole new lens." -- back cover.