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- Authored by an expert in the field of addiction psychiatry
- Reviews underlying mechanisms in obesity and disorders of overeating and SUDs
- Introduces the concept of food addiction as a model to understand some forms of overeating
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Standard Approaches to Clinical Assessment and Treatment of Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
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Can the Food Addiction Concept Improve Treatment?
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Clinical Evidence for Food Addiction
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Basic Biology of Food Addiction, and Its Overlap with Substance Use Disorders
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Assessment and Treatment of Food Addiction
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About this book
This book is written for providers of broad training backgrounds, and aims to help those who care for people with EDs, overweight and obesity provide evidence-based care. The goal of the book is to provide these providers with a straightforward resource summarizing the current standard of care. However, it goes further by also introducing the concept of food addiction (FA) as a model to understand some forms of overeating. This book discusses the pros and cons of embracing FA and reviews the evidence for and against the validity and utility of FA. By doing so, the chapters convey a “middle ground” approach to help people with obesity, BED, and bulimia nervosa plus FA symptomatology who also want to lose weight. The text discusses FA by reviewing several of the main ongoing controversies associated with the construct. It reviews both the clinical and neuroscientific evidence that some individuals’ eating behavior mirrors that seen in substance use disorders (SUD), such as how their relationship with food appears to be “addictive”. Chapters also discuss how many of the mechanisms known to underlie SUDs appear to drive overeating in animal models and humans. Finally, the text argues that the similarities between the brain mechanisms of addictive disorders and overeating behavior has the potential to open up new avenues for current treatment and treatment development.
Food Addiction, Obesity and Disorders of Overeating: An Evidence-Based Assessment and Clinical Guide is suited for both medical and mental health practitioners, including physicians in primary care or psychiatry, nurses, psychologists, social workers, medical students and medical residents. It could also be utilized by researchers in obesity and ED fields, stimulating ideas for future research and study design.
Authors and Affiliations
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Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, USA
Claire E. Wilcox
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Addiction, Obesity, and Disorders of Overeating
Book Subtitle: An Evidence-Based Assessment and Clinical Guide
Authors: Claire E. Wilcox
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83078-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83077-9Published: 01 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83080-9Published: 02 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83078-6Published: 30 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Behavioral Therapy, Nutrition