Full Description
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. This book addresses limitations in other works that may individually look at a one-way or unidirectional relationship between food and behavior.
It examines, in the context of bidirectional relationship at multiple levels, the connection between food and behavior. For example, it examines at both preclinical and clinical levels, from genes to populations, how components in food will affect our behavior and sensory responses and how our behavior and sensory responses affect what foods we eat, their pattern of consumption, and so on. In other words it truly bridges the transdisciplinary divide. The book consists of approximately 100 chapters (it is anticipated that chapters will be added to the current roster), conveniently divided into seven sections representing the various subdisciplines and speciality areas, namely: General aspects Eating and food choice; Mental tasks and performance: influence of diet Obesity and dieting; Eating disorders Organic pathologies and interrelationships with eating; and, Changing eating behavior and attitudes.
Contents
Section 1. General Aspects of Nutrition and Diet.- Food texture and our senses.- The brain responses to food.- Influence of cholecystokinin and leptin on eating.- Brain growth and cognitive function.- Olfactory learning in the infant.- The ageing brain: neurological and immunomodulatory aspects.- The psychobiology of cognitive function and diet.- Psychoneuroendocrinology of cortisol secretion: relationship to caffeine and food intake.- Brain peptides and the control of eating.- Leptin and the central nervous system .- Oleylethanolamide and brain nuclear receptor PPAR-a .- The genomics of eating behavior.- Twin studies of eating behavior.- Diet--gene interactions.- Lateral hypothalamic neuropeptides and food consumption.- Cannabinoid receptors and food consumption.- Food intake and heart rate variability.- Breast feeding and cognitive development.- Eating behavior and body weight.- Eating, hedonics, and reinforcing value of food.- Food cues and salivation.- Section 2. Eating and Food Choice.- Eating patterns and body mass index.- Eating and the cannabinoid receptor.- Dysphagia: neurological and behavioral aspects in the elderly.- Impact of cardiovascular disease prevention programs on eating behavior.- Restrained eating and cognition.- Health behavior in adults: food and dietary aspects.- the control of eating: neurological and neuropeptide aspects.- Eating and corticotropin-releasing factor family peptides.- Behavioral aspects of supplement use .- Event-related potentials and eating behavior.- Behavioral and psychological aspects of eating in athletes.- Body image in athletes and eating behavior.- Relationship between oral stimuli and perception.- Behavioral aspects of failure-to-thrive.- Behavioral aspects of emotional eating.- Dietary amino acids and mood.- Section 3. Mental Tasks and Performance.- Cognitive performance and high-carbohydrate and high-fat diet.- Cognitive performance and delivery rates of carbohydrate.- Phytoestrogens and neuroendocrine response .- Breast milk and neurobehavioral and cognitive development.- Breast feeding and neurobehavioral organization.- Manipulation of diet to alter food intake.- Section 4. Obesity and Dieting.- Neurochemical aspects of obesity.- Relationships between physiological and cognitive variables in obese women .- Personality traits and eating behavior .- Biopsychosocial characteristics of the overweight and obese.- Behavioral influences of dieting in adolescent girls .- Microstructure of eating behavior and personality aspects in obesity.- Concept mapping and cognitive function in the obese.- Section 5. Eating Disorders.- Genetic influences of eating disorders: neurological and behavioral aspects.- Eating disorders and attention biases .- Oral sensitivity and other feeding-related problems in premature infants.- Problematic eating patterns and food-related cues.- Eating disorders and behavioral aspects of school-based prevention programs.- Bulimia nervosa: behavioral and neurological aspects.- Anorexia nervosa: behavioral and neurological aspects.- Overeating and food cues.- Cognitive performance deficits of dieters.- Food phobias.- Section 6. Organic Pathologies, Eating, and Diet.- Mental retardation and nutrition .- Down's syndrome and eating behavior.- Maternal diets and brain tumors.- Neonatal encephalopathy and influence on feeding.- Prenatal exposure of alcohol and brain development.- Somatic growth and cognitive development in preterm and low-birth-weight infants.- Influence of cancer diagnosis on eating behavior .- Severe cognitive impairment and nutrition.- Eating behavior in developmental disabilities .- Nutrition of elderly patients in long-term care .- Nutrition and cognitive function in the elderly.- Dieting and neural tube defects.- Alzheimer's disease: behavioral and neurological aspects of eating and diet .- Cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease: effects on nutritionally related side effects .- Prader-Willi syndrome: behavioral and neurological aspects of eating and diet.- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: behavioral and neurological aspects of eating and diet.- Malnutrition in the young: impact on cognitive function.- Amino acid supplementation in the management of psychopathological processes .- Section 7. Changing Eating Behavior and Attitudes.- Initiating change in eating behavior .- Initiating change in eating behavior of children.- Reducing appetite with sibutramine.- Behavioral aspects of obesity management in children.- Stress perception, coping responses, and eating disorders.- Influence of thermal therapy on eating behavior.- Stress and diet.- Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) receptor and modulation of eating.- Behavioral and psychological aspects of anorexia in the elderly .- Food-related behavioral mechanisms in times of reduced food availability.- Strategies for changing dietary choice following myocardial infarction
