Therapy & Therapeutics

Obesity is widely regarded as a shared, modifiable risk factor of both breast cancer (BC) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Human epidermal growth ...

Finding Your Voice with Dyslexia/SpLD is an essential guide to living with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties (SpLD). The book provi...

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal...

This practical resource is brimming with ideas and guidance for using simple ideas from speech and language pathology and occupational therapy to b...

Respiratory muscle training (RMST) programs are of great interest to the community of speech language pathologists since they function as rehabilit...

Aphasia is an acquired impairment of production or comprehension of language or both resulting from damage to the language network in the brain. In...

This book is a comprehensive yet succinct overview of research on prosodic development, uniting phonetic, phonological, and clinical approaches to ...

The author presents a new approach to the therapy of stuttering. Instead of accepting stuttering and trying to make it more fluent, he prefers to m...

The obesity epidemic is one of the most serious public health threats confronting the nation and the world. The majority of overweight individuals ...

The world-wide problem of obesity has increased to epidemic proportions over the last several decades and continues to grow. Obesity is now a leadi...

Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present several features that convert them into high-risk patients, despite oft...

Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present different conditions that make it more difficult to facilitate correct ...

By the 500,000-copy bestselling author of The Obesity Code. Recipes to revolutionalise the way you cook, eat, and live. In The Obesity Code, Dr J...

This book presents the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiologic basis that induces the chronic positive energy balance necessar...

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity'...

As bariatric procedures become more commonplace, the safety and quality of bariatric surgery continues to rise. Risk factors remain inconsistent fr...

The pandemic of obesity in the majority of countries of the world has become a major health problem: obesity leads to a number of serious diseases ...

This third installment of The Year in Diabetes and Obesity review series includes reviews with a special focus on metabolic syndrome and health. ...

The prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased over the last 25 years. In the United States, it is estimated that two-thirds of the populatio...

This second installment of The Year in Diabetes and Obesity review series includes thought-provoking reviews on  central nervous system control of ...

In a world where charlatans promise to fix the alarming obesity epidemic with a silver-bullet diet or trendy new exercise program, Robyn Toomath, a...

Is there evidence for addiction to food? How strong is this evidence? If so, what element of food makes it addictive? Over the last forty years, ou...

In the United States alone over two-thirds of adults and almost 49 percent of young people ages 2-19 are considered either obese or overweight, and...