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Some Psychiatric Aspects of Obesity

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Advances in Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology
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The often presumed origins of obesity in terms of disturbed energy balance, feeding behaviour and activity have usually been examined within the experimental mechanistic laboratory model. Can such reductionist concepts ever be translated into human experimental terms?

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Crisp, A.H. (1982). Some Psychiatric Aspects of Obesity. In: Prill, HJ., Stauber, M., Pechatschek, PG. (eds) Advances in Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81876-9_30

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