Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine

"Neurologist Anand artfully stitches together memoir, medical history, neuroscience, and glimpses of people with neurological diseases to introduce readers to different types of wounded brains. Featured disorders include epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, fatal familial insomnia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, cerebellar degeneration, metastatic breast cancer wrapping itself around the brain, and autoimmune encephalitis. The book excels in Anand's ruminations on the art of clinical medicine and her insights into the physician experience. She startlingly confesses, 'To become a doctor, I was becoming less of a human being.' Fully charged...an undeniable grace and humanity permeate these pages that are sure to spark a response in readers." —Booklist (starred review)

"A wonderfully accessible overview of just how easily bias can creep into science, together with solid, practical advice on how to challenge it. A valuable resource for researchers, physicians, and policymakers." —Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science

"A powerful moving memoir traces a life transformed by extraordinary callings. A journey tried by unknowns, characterized by patience, courage, and activism. Self-effacingly, Trimble lays bare his evolving search, inviting us to look at our own. A Seeker's Journey reminds us that painful experiences do not have to be hidden. Trimble invites readers to be grounded in their traditions in open dialogue with other traditions to embrace fear and pain and to build hope for healing and love." – Hugo Kamya, professor, Smith College School for Social Work

"In Why We Forget, memory experts Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger provide readers with a practical and clearly explained masterclass in how memory works and how to keep it working well as we age. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand and maximize their memory functions." – Wendy Suzuki, PhD, professor of neural science and psychology, New York University, and internationally bestselling author of Healthy Brain Happy Life and Good Anxiety

"The unapologetic application of womanism to improve the health of Black communities is culturally congruent with the spiritual, ancestral, emotional, and physical essence of Black peoples. This book expertly applies womanism to AIDS activism, advocacy, and sociopolitical involvement, particularly emphasizing the role of Black women as activists in the U.S. In doing so, the authors move beyond the personal as political towards the personal as survival, for all people...The authors use the stories of women activists to demonstrate the epistemological and applied underpinnings of womanism. Womanism is the way to heal our communities and this book reframes community-based approaches and action in a way that truly heals." – Jameta Barlow, The George Washington University

“[A] comprehensive and comforting debut…Her gentle yet precise language will be a balm.” ― Publishers Weekly

"This is a serious yet understandable book that needs to be on every counselor's bookshelf. It makes a superb text for child and adolescent counseling courses or an excellent supplementary resource for theories courses. The case material is outstanding, and professors will find the content alignment with the CACREP Standards particularly helpful. The broad expertise of the authors speaks to a general audience, and they provide accurate, clear, and relevant information on neuroscience that is immediately useful. In short, this is a significant contribution to our profession." -Allen E. Ivey, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts Amherst

"This is as close to an exhaustive treatise on adult cognitive disorders as seems possible. Each chapter outlines what is known about the discussed disorder as well as its etiology, symptoms and treatments – the result is a veritable diagnostic and treatment manual specific to adult cognitive disorders. The work concludes with a seven-chapter section on perspectives and considerations for the clinical researcher; these chapters should lead to many future directions in the research surrounding these disorders. Highly recommended for professionals and practitioners." –  CHOICE

"This is a terrific book. Lucid and eminently practical, it summarizes what Dr. Najavits has learned helps patients in over three decades of practice and research. Page upon page, she helps you confront what is going on inside of yourself. It’s a step-by-step road to recovery from the enslavement of trauma and addiction. This is the sort of book you put by your bedside to visit over and over again as a guide to dealing with numbing, addiction, the secrets you try to keep from yourself, and underlying issues. I cannot recommend this book highly enough."--Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score

“Stigma Syndemics is a serious and long-overdue examination into one of the most pernicious drivers of widespread affliction. The contributors to this rare collection reveal how stigma in its many forms sits at the center of numerous seemingly intractable challenges. They also issue a clear mandate to overcome the pervasive threat of stigma in its widest sense.” — Bobby Milstein, ReThink Health and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“This is a terrific book. Lucid and eminently practical, it summarizes what Dr. Najavits has learned helps patients in over three decades of practice and research. Page upon page, she helps you confront what is going on inside of yourself. It’s a step-by-step road to recovery from the enslavement of trauma and addiction. This is the sort of book you put by your bedside to visit over and over again as a guide to dealing with numbing, addiction, the secrets you try to keep from yourself, and underlying issues. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.” — Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score

“This is an amazing work and I commend the authors for their excellent contribution. In my opinion, MRI-Essentials.com—An Illustrated Atlas of Orthopedic MRI should be soon part of everyday practice: combining both didactic and synthetic purposes, this book is actual, relevant to the expectations of today’s MSK radiology. Insightful illustrations with corresponding iconography lead the reader to a quick but flawless understanding of any pathology.” — Sahlya Djebbar, MD/MSK Radiologist, University Hospital of Lille, France

“An informative and accessible discussion of memory loss, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and other mental-health concerns. This primer will be useful to middle-aged and elderly readers, caregivers, family members, healthcare professionals, and others striving to understand the aging brain or find concrete ways to enhance brain health.” — Publishers Weekly

“In Foundations of Biosocial Health, the role of stigma as a powerful and enduring social-structural factor in health is highlighted and underscored. Through eloquent case studies on substance abuse, obesity, and HIV/AIDS, the authors discuss how the psychological and emotional scarring of stigmatization can result on poor physical and mental health, and that health is ultimately best understood by using a framework that examines the interactions between human biology and the social environment. Given that recent research is showing the linkage between racism (and discrimination) and adverse health, this book is timely and highly informative.” — David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida

“An excellent book that I would recommend to my patients. Dr. Wiesman does a good job explaining difficult medical concepts in laymen’s terms.” — Ahmet Höke, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

“This is an essential and quick read for radiology residents in training and a reference for practicing clinicians across various specialties. The superlative image quality and painstaking labeling of each image reduces the need for text and conveys key concepts in a visually appealing manner. The most outstanding feature of the book is it’s concise and easy to understand presentation. This should certainly be part of the required reading for every medical student and resident with an interest in radiologic diagnosis.” — Parthiv Mehta, MBBS, MD (Baystate Medical Center)

“This is an excellent book that will serve as an outstanding reference guide to imaging in specific sports and for planning for event coverage.…The intended audience is sports medicine physicians, and the book seems to be targeted at both orthopedic and primary care physicians…a great reference for sport-specific coverage or for use when athletes present to the sports medicine clinic. It is a high quality book with excellent images and descriptions that are easy to understand.” — Jordan W. Edwards, Doody’s Book Reviews

“Adaptive Disclosure approaches the treatment of war-related trauma from a perspective that distinguishes it from other types of trauma, which will revolutionize the treatment of PTSD in the military. The authors consider aspects of trauma that are too frequently ignored: grief and loss and moral injury. Litz, Lebowitz, Gray, and Nash are to be commended for taking us to the next level of caring for our service members and veterans.” — Carl A. Castro, PhD, School of Social Work, University of Southern California; Colonel, US Army (Retired)

“The cohesive text is an appealing blend of personal experience and clinical anecdotes, and is supported by a firm command of the rapidly changing clinical literature. The writing is crisp, lucid and, above all, practice-oriented…The book is an incredible compilation of practical advice.” — Lancet Neurology

“This is one of the best ENT Head & Neck Surgical atlases with a focus on Minimally Invasive approaches to head and neck pathologies.…I highly recommend this book for residents, fellows, oncologists, and ENT surgeons.” — Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, June 2015

“This is an extraordinary volume filled with nuanced and thoughtful discussions of recent advances in every facet of research on PTSD. The contributors are a veritable who’s who of leaders in basic and translational PTSD research. ‘Must’ reading for anyone interested in understanding the nosology, epidemiology, causes, consequences, or treatment of this important disorder.” — Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

“This is an informative, current, state-of-the-art book on inflammatory bowel disease that is an essential item for every clinician in training and every academic library.” — Vincent F. Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Doody’s Review Service

“Kranzler, Ciraulo and Zindel’s incredibly thorough, yet compact clinical manual of addiction pharmacology is a must for physicians and other providers who treat individuals with addictive disorders… This manual would serve as an excellent teaching tool for residents in advanced training for Addiction Psychiatry and/or American Board of Addiction Medicine fellowships. Overall, this manual offers much to both experienced professionals and those beginning a career in addiction medicine.” — Ismene L. Petrakis MD

“This book provides an outstanding description of 12-step programs and explains the neurobiology of change. The purpose is to provide a conceptual schematic for addiction recovery by linking the 12-step program and fellowship with insights from neuroscience...The audience is professionals interested in the treatment of patients with addictive disorders…This interesting book is the first attempt to review the molecular neurobiological aspects of 12-step programs.” — Marcos Modiano-Esquenazi, Doody’s Book Reviews 

“The Overnight Diet is anything but your standard fare in diet books. It’s the real thing for people who are serious about losing weight as quickly as possible in a healthy, long-lasting way.” — George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

“Taking a historical, sociological, and anthropological approach, this expansive survey makes a scholarly pursuit accessible, with crisply edited essays and fascinating illustrations that break down a complex medical tradition whose relevance has not diminished…Medical professionals and alternative medicine aficionados will find plenty to appreciate in this compelling study.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“…A ‘go-to’ reference for any clinician treating individuals with brain injury…The editors have assembled a single resource for physiatrists, neurologists, psychiatrists, therapists, nurses, psychologists, and other medical specialists, as well as for legal professionals and patient advocates. A medical condition of this magnitude and scope requires the thoughtful and wide-ranging coverage this text provides. It will quickly become the authoritative desk reference sought by clinicians practicing brain injury medicine.” — The New England Journal of Medicine

“Assessment, treatment, and the costs of delivering care are summarized in a pragmatic and comprehensive manner. This volume is a timely, compact, and remarkably current resource for those who deal with such patients, providing the bases for knowledgeable decisions about how to proceed.” — Quarterly Review of Biology 2012-12-01

“(GI Emergencies) has a unique, conversational style that takes the reader from the first telephone consultation through patient evaluation, differential diagnosis, laboratory testing, and management of common gastrointestinal emergencies. This book is useful for entry level gastroenterology fellows during the initial portion of their fellowship; it may be more useful for emergency room and intensive care unit trainees of all levels.”  — C. Prakash Gyawali, Washington University School of Medicine, Gastroenterology

“From the point of view of the busy clinician working in the trenches but looking for a practical and cutting-edge guide, Doraiswamy said he cannot think of a better book, noting, ‘This is the clinical book of the year in our field.’” — Alzheimer’s Research Forum

“This is an update of a comprehensive book reviewing the neurobiological foundation and general principles and recommendations for the use of pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depression in a wide range of clinical presentations…a broad intended audience that includes ‘practicing physicians, residents in psychiatry, neurology, and medicine as well as psychologists, medical students, social workers, nurses, mental health counselors and graduate students.’…clinicians who use pharmacotherapeutic strategies to treat patients with depression will use this book the most.” — Aaron Plattner, Doody’s Review Service

“Patrick McNamara shows the power of the neurosciences, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences to cast important new light on religion through a wide range of religious phenomena, interpreted with sympathetic objectivity and reserve. No scholar of religion, from any of the disciplines of religious studies, should ignore this accessible but scientifically detailed tour de force of creative analysis.” — Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University, Past President of the American Academy of Religion 

“Kring and Sloan correctly point out that emotion dysregulation is a central component of a diverse set of psychiatric disorders and maladaptive behaviors. They have assembled a stellar group of contributors to address this important issue. By highlighting common difficulties across disorders, this superb volume challenges readers’ conceptualizations of the distinctiveness of diagnostic categories. This book should be required reading for scientists or students who want to gain a more comprehensive understanding of mechanisms that might underlie psychiatric disturbance.” — Ian H. Gotlib, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

“The editors themselves are important contributors to the book, and they have marshaled a group of chapter authors who are, for the most part, masters in the field. The first chapter, by Ranney, sets the stage by providing a comprehensive historical perspective. The high quality of the book continues from there. The book is comprehensive and surprisingly up to date, with coverage of current topics and citations of reports that have appeared in journals very recently…This book will serve as a binder for the literature on the molecule that put medicine into an entirely new place.” — The New England Journal of Medicine