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Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition

  • Provides a new depth of information on the "two-way traffic" of neurology, psychology, and behavioral aspects of food and diet

  • Each chapter includes a section on applying information to related fields, as well as a key facts, summary points and defined key terms

  • Everything you need to know about the behavioral aspects of food and nutrition: from molecular to individual through population levels

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (221 chapters)

  1. General and normative: endocrine and neuroendocrine

    1. Leptin and the CNS

      • Jenni Harvey
      Pages 271-287
    2. Oxytocin and Appetite

      • Céline Caquineau, Gareth Leng
      Pages 289-302
    3. The Role of Apolipoprotein APO A-IV in Eating Behavior and Diet

      • Giuseppe Derosa, Sibilla Anna Teresa Salvadeo
      Pages 303-317
    4. Brain Histamine Affects Eating and Drinking Behaviours

      • Leonardo Munari, Maria Beatrice Passani
      Pages 319-336
    5. Ectopic Brain Peptides Posing as Adipokines: Fat as a Novel Site of kiss1 Expression

      • Russell Brown, Syed A. Imran, Michael Wilkinson
      Pages 337-354
    6. Orexigenic Hypothalamic Peptides Behavior and Feeding

      • Jon F. Davis, Derrick L. Choi, Stephen C. Benoit
      Pages 355-369
  2. General and Normative Aspects: Neurological

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 405-405
  3. General and normative aspects: neurological

    1. Dietary Proteins and Satiety-Related Neuronal Pathways in the Brain

      • Gilles Fromentin, Nicolas Darcel, Catherine Chaumontet, Daniel Tomé
      Pages 407-421
    2. The Importance of Trace Elements for Neurological Function

      • Joel G. Anderson, Keith M. Erikson
      Pages 423-439
    3. Cannabinoid Cb1 Receptor Antagonists/Inverse Agonists and Food-Seeking Behavior

      • John D. Salamone, Kelly Sink, Kristen N. Segovia, Patrick A. Randall, Peter J. McLaughlin, V. Kiran Vemuri et al.
      Pages 441-456
    4. Forebrain Activation by Postoral Nutritive Substances

      • Takashi Kondoh, Kunio Torii
      Pages 469-487
    5. Gender Differences in Brain Activation by Food Stimulation

      • Gene-Jack Wang, Nora D. Volkow, Frank Telang, Panayotis K. Thanos, Joanna S. Fowler
      Pages 505-514
    6. Food Perception in Adults: Neuroimaging Findings

      • Alexandra P. F. Key, Evonne J. Charboneau, Ronald L. Cowan
      Pages 515-530
  4. General and Normative Aspects: Behavioral and Psychological

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 531-531

About this book

This book disseminates current information pertaining to the modulatory effects of foods and other food substances on behavior and neurological pathways and, importantly, vice versa. This ranges from the neuroendocrine control of eating to the effects of life-threatening disease on eating behavior. The importance of this contribution to the scientific literature lies in the fact that food and eating are an essential component of cultural heritage but the effects of perturbations in the food/cognitive axis can be profound. The complex interrelationship between neuropsychological processing, diet, and behavioral outcome is explored within the context of the most contemporary psychobiological research in the area. This comprehensive psychobiology- and pathology-themed text examines the broad spectrum of diet, behavioral, and neuropsychological interactions from normative function to occurrences of severe and enduring psychopathological processes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College, London, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

  • Arizona Health Science Center, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Ronald Ross Watson

  • University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, United Kingdom

    Colin R. Martin

About the editors

Victor R. Preedy, PhD. DSc, PRIPH, FRSH, FIBiol, FRCPath, is Director of the Genomics Centre and Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King’s College London. He is on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Cellular Pathology, Frontiers in Bioscience, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and reviews, as well as 15 books. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, Springer 2010

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition

  • Editors: Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson, Colin R. Martin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92271-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-92270-6Published: 29 June 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3982-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-92271-3Published: 15 April 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 2094

  • Topics: Public Health

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