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This guide looks at the factors that precipitate anorexia nervosa and then sustain it and how these can be overcome, looking particularly at underlying body chemistry and the effects of short and long term starvation on health and behaviour.
Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a variety of Darwinian perspectives that will encourage readers to consider 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. Using insights from comparative animal evolution, ethology, anthropology, culture, philosophy and other humanities, evolutionary thinking helps us to re-evaluate psychiatric epidemiology, genetics, biochemistry and psychology. It seeks explanations for persistent heritable traits shaped by selection and other evolutionary processes, and reviews traits and disorders using phylogenetic history and insights from the neurosciences as well as the effects of the modern environment. By bridging the gap between social and biological approaches to psychiatry, and encouraging bringing the evolutionary perspective into mainstream psychiatry, this book will help to inspire new avenues of research into the causation and treatment of mental disorders.
Fully updated throughout, this new edition provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern general adult psychiatry.
A practical and clinical introduction for those new to working in the field of eating disorders.
This is an essential guide to the fundamentals of psychiatry for undergraduate students, junior doctors, and mental health nursing students.
Good nutrition is essential for health and the treatment of disease. This new handbook aims to provide students, doctors and healthcare professionals with essential information to apply medical nutrition theory in their everyday practice. Essentials of Nutrition in Medicine and Healthcare: A Practical Guide takes a systems-based approach to medical nutrition. It includes the pathophysiology of nutrition-related disease as well as the clinical application of nutrition theory in disease management and the role of nutrition in public health. It covers the basics of physiology and biochemistry, including relevant drug-nutrient interactions. This will be an invaluable asset for all those not alre...
The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry offers a comprehensive and pragmatic guide to the UK's inpatient mental health care system.