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Hidden and Lesser-known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions

  • Covers unhealthy eating attitudes and weight control behaviors associated with medical diseases

  • Includes mental disorders, which differ from eating disorders that may be associated with unhealthy eating and weight control behaviors

  • Examines unhealthy eating in the elderly, males and sexual minorities

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Muscle Dysmorphia and Disordered Eating Behavior

    • Stuart B. Murray, Rachel F. Rodgers
    Pages 1-4
  3. Eating Disorders in Infants and Toddlers

    • Antonia Parmeggiani, Jacopo Pruccoli
    Pages 5-13
  4. Eating Disorders in Males

    • Giovanni Gravina, Malvina Gualandi, Emilia Manzato
    Pages 15-22
  5. Eating Disorders in Midlife and in the Elderly

    • Emilia Manzato, Eleonora Roncarati
    Pages 23-31
  6. Food and Addictions

    • Umberto Nizzoli
    Pages 49-62
  7. Post-Traumatic Eating Disorder

    • Romana Schumann, Valentina Fasoli, Chiara Mazzoni
    Pages 63-76
  8. Psychotropic Drug-Induced Disordered Eating Behaviors

    • Enrica Marzola, Maria Musso, Giovanni Abbate-Daga
    Pages 77-86
  9. Disordered Eating Behaviors in Other Psychiatric Disorders

    • Anna Rita Atti, Maurizio Speciani, Diana De Ronchi
    Pages 87-102
  10. Drunkorexia

    • Crystal D. Oberle
    Pages 123-127
  11. Eating Disorders and Bariatric Surgery

    • Donatella Ballardini, Livia Pozzi, Elena Dapporto, Elena Tomba
    Pages 129-145
  12. Night Eating Syndrome and Nocturnal Sleep-Related Eating Disorder

    • Caterina Lombardo, Silvia Cerolini
    Pages 147-158
  13. When “Healthy” Is Taken Too Far: Orthorexia Nervosa—Current State, Controversies and Future Directions

    • Valeria Galfano, Elena V. Syurina, Martina Valente, Lorenzo M. Donini
    Pages 159-176
  14. Pica

    • Alexandra Höger, Andrea Sabrina Hartmann
    Pages 177-183
  15. Purging Disorder

    • Norbert Quadflieg
    Pages 185-191
  16. Rumination Disorder

    • C. Laird Birmingham
    Pages 193-197
  17. Achalasia and Disordered Eating Behaviours

    • Aurélie Letranchant
    Pages 199-206
  18. Cancer and Disordered Eating Behavior: The Issue of Anorexia

    • Alessio Molfino, Maria Ida Amabile, Giovanni Imbimbo, Antonella Giorgi, Maurizio Muscaritoli
    Pages 207-216

About this book

This book provides up-to-date information on lesser known eating disorders (EDs) and eating related disorders. EDs and eating-related disorders include a highly heterogeneous group of syndromes and symptoms characterized by abnormal eating and weight control behaviors that can appear in all genders and ages. EDs can lead to high rates of morbidity and mortality, especially if they are misdiagnosed and untreated.  The risk of underestimation is high for the lesser-known ED, and when unhealthy eating behaviors appear in unusual situations, such as some medical and psychiatric pathologies, adults and the elderly, sexual minorities etc. 

The volume examines EDs in specific populations (the elderly, males, infants and toddlers, sexual minorities, etc.). Several chapters explore in detail lesser-known EDs (anorexia athletica, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, chewing and spitting, EDs by proxy, EDs after bariatric surgery, muscle dysmorphia, night-eating syndrome, nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, pica, rumination disorder, etc.). Finally, other chapters address features of unhealthy eating and weight control behaviors associated with medical diseases (achalasia, craniopharyngioma, cystic fibrosis, cyclic vomiting syndrome, diabetes, dysphagia, Kleine-Levin syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Parkinson disease, Prader-Willi syndrome, Turner syndrome, etc.)

The book will be a valuable resource for all health professionals who work in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, eating disorders, obesity, medicine, clinical nutrition, public health, and prevention, allowing them to broaden their understanding of these disorders, and to enhance their clinical ability to diagnose them.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Private Hospital "Salus" of Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Emilia Manzato

  • Formerly Sapienza University of Rome, Founding Editor of Eating and Weight Disorders, Campiglia Marittima, Italy

    Massimo Cuzzolaro

  • Experimental Medicine Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Editor-in-Chief of Eating and Weight Disorders, Roma, Italy

    Lorenzo Maria Donini

About the editors

Emilia Manzato is currently Chief of the Eating Disorders Unit at the Private Hospital Salus Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, and former Professor on Contract at the University of Ferrara. She received her medical degree from the University of Padua, Italy, where she also completed her specialization in psychiatry. She is a National Council Member of the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders (SISDCA), and former President of the Emilia Romagna Region for the SISDCA. She is the author of more than 30 international publications, one book chapter and a book; further, she has edited one book on obesity.

Massimo Cuzzolaro is a renowned psychiatrist and former researcher with longstanding service as professor of psychiatry at the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy, where he was chief of an eating disorders unit from 1981 to 2008 and a consultant psychiatrist in a bariatric surgery unit from 1995 to 2008. Massimo Cuzzolaro is a past president of the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders. He has been a member of various international and national scientific societies and has been an editorial board member of several scientific journals. He was Editor-in-Chief of Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity from 1996 to 2020. His research interests have included clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy, eating disorders, obesity, and body image disorders. Massimo Cuzzolaro is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters and of ten books.

Lorenzo M. Donini is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, and Head of the Research Unit on “Food Science and Human Nutrition” of the Department of Experimental Medicine at the “Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy. Since 2010, he has been Head of the Nutritional Status Evaluation Laboratory at the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome (teaching hospital of the Sapienza University), which is mainly devoted to sarcopenic obese subjects. He is also President of the Degree Course for Dietitians, coordinator of the activities of the teaching staff at the Specialisation School in Food Science and Nutrition, CEO of the CIISCAM (International inter-university center for Mediterranean food culture studies), and President of the SISDCA (Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders). He has published more than 150 scientific articles and more than 30 book chapters on malnutrition, obesity and metabolism, eating behavior (orthorexia nervosa, senile anorexia), and sustainability of the Mediterranean diet. He is peer reviewer for many scientific journals, serves on the Editorial Board of various journals dealing with food science and nutrition, and since 2020 is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Eating and Weight Disorders.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hidden and Lesser-known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions

  • Editors: Emilia Manzato, Massimo Cuzzolaro, Lorenzo Maria Donini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81174-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81173-0Published: 02 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81176-1Published: 03 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81174-7Published: 01 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 386

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry

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