Glendale, CA (PRWEB) December 25, 2013

Audio-Digest Foundation announces the release of Oncology Volume 04, Issue 17: Highlights from Future Directions: Palliative Medicine and Supportive Oncology 2013- Part 2.

The goal of this program is to improve palliative or supportive care of patients with cancer. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Anticipate symptoms associated with certain types, locations, and treatments of central nervous system (CNS) malignancies. 2. Prescribe appropriate therapies for symptoms of CNS malignancies. 3. Manage treatment of patients with metastases to the leptomeninges. 4. Differentiate clinical depression from other disorders with similar presentation in cancer patients. 5. Choose anti-depressant drugs that treat concomitant conditions as well as depression.

The original programs were presented by David M. Peereboom, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Research, Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH. Walter F. Baile, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.

Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.

In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.

For 60 years, the global medical community of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other medical professionals around the world has subscribed to Audio-Digest specialty series in order to remain current in their specialties as well as to maintain their Continuing Education requirements with the most cutting-edge, independent, and unbiased continuing medical education (CME).

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Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviors.[1][2] Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases,[3][4] and by many accounts it ultimately aims to benefit society.[5][6] In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social, behavioral, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviors.

Psychologists explore concepts such as perception, cognition, attention, emotion, phenomenology, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the unconscious mind.[7] Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables. In addition, or in opposition, to employing empirical and deductive methods, someespecially clinical and counseling psychologistsat times rely upon symbolic interpretation and other inductive techniques. Psychology has been described as a "hub science",[8] with psychological findings linking to research and perspectives from the social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and the humanities, such as philosophy.

While psychological knowledge is often applied to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems, it is also directed towards understanding and solving problems in many different spheres of human activity. The majority of psychologists are involved in some kind of therapeutic role, practicing in clinical, counseling, or school settings. Many do scientific research on a wide range of topics related to mental processes and behavior, and typically work in university psychology departments or teach in other academic settings (e.g., medical schools, hospitals). Some are employed in industrial and organizational settings, or in other areas[9] such as human development and aging, sports, health, and the media, as well as in forensic investigation and other aspects of law.

The word psychology literally means, "study of the soul" (, psukh, meaning "breath", "spirit", or "soul"; and - -logos, translated as "study of" or "research"[10]).[11] The Latin word psychologia was first used by the Croatian humanist and Latinist Marko Maruli in his book, Psichiologia de ratione animae humanae in the late 15th century or early 16th century.[12] The earliest known reference to the word psychology in English was by Steven Blankaart in 1694 in The Physical Dictionary which refers to "Anatomy, which treats of the Body, and Psychology, which treats of the Soul."[13]

The study of psychology in a philosophical context dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, China, India, and Persia. Historians point to the writings of ancient Greek philosophers, such as Thales, Plato, and Aristotle (especially in his De Anima treatise),[14] as the first significant body of work in the West to be rich in psychological thought.[15] As early as the 4th century BC, Greek physician Hippocrates theorized that mental disorders were of a physical, rather than divine, nature.[16]

German physician Wilhelm Wundt is credited with introducing psychological discovery into a laboratory setting. Known as the "father of experimental psychology",[17] he founded the first psychological laboratory, at Leipzig University, in 1879.[17] Wundt focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components, motivated in part by an analogy to recent advances in chemistry, and its successful investigation of the elements and structure of material. Although Wundt, himself, was not a structuralist, his student Edward Titchener, a major figure in early American psychology, was a structuralist thinker opposed to functionalist approaches.

Functionalism formed as a reaction to the theories of the structuralist school of thought and was heavily influenced by the work of the American philosopher, scientist, and psychologist William James. James felt that psychology should have practical value, and that psychologists should find out how the mind can function to a person's benefit. In his book, Principles of Psychology,[18] published in 1890, he laid the foundations for many of the questions that psychologists would explore for years to come. Other major functionalist thinkers included John Dewey and Harvey Carr.

Other 19th-century contributors to the field include the German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, a pioneer in the experimental study of memory, who developed quantitative models of learning and forgetting at the University of Berlin,[19] and the Russian-Soviet physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who discovered in dogs a learning process that was later termed "classical conditioning" and applied to human beings.[20]

Starting in the 1950s, the experimental techniques developed by Wundt, James, Ebbinghaus, and others re-emerged as experimental psychology became increasingly cognitivistconcerned with information and its processingand, eventually, constituted a part of the wider cognitive science.[21] In its early years, this development was seen as a "revolution,"[21] as cognitive science both responded to and reacted against then-popular theories, including psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories.

From the 1890s until his death in 1939, the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis, which comprised a method of investigating the mind and interpreting experience; a systematized set of theories about human behavior; and a form of psychotherapy to treat psychological or emotional distress, especially unconscious conflict.[22] Freud's psychoanalytic theory was largely based on interpretive methods, introspection and clinical observations. It became very well known, largely because it tackled subjects such as sexuality, repression, and the unconscious mind as general aspects of psychological development. These were largely considered taboo subjects at the time, and Freud provided a catalyst for them to be openly discussed in polite society. Clinically, Freud helped to pioneer the method of free association and a therapeutic interest in dream interpretation.[23][24]

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Lexington, Massachusetts (PRWEB) December 20, 2013

Forbes Consulting Group Named a Finalist in Insights Innovation Competition

Companys MindSight Express Recognized in Cognitive Neuroscience & Behavioral Science Category

Forbes Consulting Group, the leading market research company that directly accesses the emotional brain to discover consumers deep emotional reactions, today announced that they were named an Insights Innovation finalist in the Cognitive Neuroscience & Behavioral Science category for their innovative applied neuroscience technology, MindSight Express. As one of 6 companies recognized, Forbes Consulting Group will present at the Insights Innovation Exchange Conference February 19-20 in Amsterdam where winners will be announced.

After several intense weeks of competition with over 2,692 votes cast by the global market research community, we are honored to be among the finalists in this prestigious competition. Our clients value the authentic consumer insights about emotions and motivations that we deliver to them and we continue to be focused on their success, said Dr. David Forbes, President and CEO of the Forbes Consulting Group.

Winners in this global competition will receive exposure to a large international audience of business partners and investors, including the European Commission CORDIS.

Congratulations to all the finalists in our 4th Insights Innovation competition, said Leonard Murphy, Chairman and Producer, Insight Innovation Exchange. I am deeply impressed with the incredible variety of approaches and technologies displayed by all of the entrants and look forward to the next round.

About Forbes Consulting Group Founded in 1985 and based in Lexington, Massachusetts, the Forbes Consulting Group is a strategic and innovative market research company providing clients with deeper levels of insight about emotions and motivations - and helping them gain strategic market advantage on the strength of this insight. In its 26-year history, Forbes Consulting Group has become a valued resource for Fortune 500 companies. For more information, including the opportunity to receive a demo of MindSight, the companys proprietary applied neuroscience technology that uncovers authentic emotional insight from consumers before the rational mind can edit responses, please contact sales(at)forbesconsulting(dot)com and follow the company on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Miami-Dade County residents truly love their libraries, but they dont necessarily want to pay more taxes to fund them.

Those are the findings of a new poll conducted on behalf of county government, which is trying to find ways to save the public library system from deep budget cuts. Ninety-five percent of respondents who use the library and 72 percent of non-users said libraries add to their quality of life. Eighty-three percent of respondents disagreed with a statement calling libraries outmoded, obsolete and no longer necessary.

Yet support for increasing the property-tax rate likely the only way to grow the libraries or even keep them intact was inconsistent, according to the survey by Behavioral Science Research, a Coral Gables-based firm.

Forty-four percent of respondents said they would be OK with a tax-rate hike, with 20 percent undecided.

Robert Ladner, the president of Behavioral Science Research, called the support soft.

It is a very vulnerable area, he said this week to Mayor Carlos Gimenezs task force examining the libraries future.

The results mirror a national study published earlier this month by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found that 95 percent of Americans 16 and older consider libraries important. Ninety percent said the closure of their local library would have an impact on their community.

But Pew also found that respondents visited libraries less frequently in the past. The study did not ask about library funding.

Nearly half of Miami-Dades libraries, 22 of 49, faced closure this summer when Gimenez and the County Commission kept this years property-tax rate flat. In the end, the politicians spared the libraries and their 169 employees who would have been laid off by raiding one-time reserves.

With those reserves depleted, the county is looking at a shortfall of about $20 million next year to fund the libraries at the same level as this year, unless the tax rate goes up.

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