Eating Disorders and the Brain by Bryan Lask

Eating Disorders and the Brain by Bryan Lask

This ground-breaking new book describes how increasingly sophisticated neuroscientific approaches are revealing much about the role of the brain in eating disorders. Even more importantly, it discusses how underlying brain abnormalities and dysfunction may contribute to the development and help in the treatment of these serious disorders.

"Congratulation on excellent book: informative, readable, broad in its coverage, and very useful to those of us who are not neuroscientistsI particularly appreciated the several concluding chapters that articulated and evaluated the nature, strengths, and shortcomings of models."
(Dr Michael Levine, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA, November 2102)


“This is a very good contribution to the psychiatric literature that will help clinicians, researchers, and neuroscientists in general to understand eating disorders from a biopsychosocial perspective. It gives a very explicit definition of eating disorders as well as treatment options and future overviews.”  (Doody's, 25 May 2012)

"Well written and well edited, nicely balanced between academic reviews and integrative theoretical syntheses, the readable chapters will inform readers who lack deep knowledge about biological aspects of eating disorders as well as those who are better informed. Chapters are scholarly without being stuffy, and contributors summarize pertinent studies in structural and functional neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and the neuroscience of body image.

For serious eating disorders clinicians as well as academicians, there’s much in this book to study and ponder." - EATING DISORDERS REVIEW

“There has been an important paradigm shift in thinking about eating disorders in that the brain is receiving  more  attention.  The Academy of Eating Disorders has published a position paper placing the brain more centrally within these highly complex multifaceted disorders.  This book is an important addition to the literature: the authors are all expert communicators and are able to make the topic simple, enjoyable  and easy to understand.”  - Janet Treasure, Professor of Psychiatry, Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School, London, UK

Bryan Lask FRCPsych, FAED, M.Phil, MB,. BS
Hon Consultant and Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK; Research Director, Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders, London, UK; Visiting Professor, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Ian Frampton BA(Hons) D.Clin.Psych. Dip.Clin.Neuropsych. C Psychol.
Hon Consultant Psychologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK; Visiting Research Consultant, Regional Eating Disorders Service, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

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ISBN 13	9780470670033
ISBN 10	0470670037
Title	Eating Disorders and the Brain
Author	Bryan Lask
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published	2011-08-19
Number of pages	264
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