Appetite and body weight : integrative systems and the development of anti-obesity drugs / edited by Tim C. Kirkham and Steven J. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkham, Tim C.

Cooper, S. J. (Steven J.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Psychological aspects.

Appetite.

Body weight.

Body Weight.

Anti-Obesity Agents.

Obesity--physiopathology.

Medical Subjects:

Appetite.

Body Weight.

Anti-Obesity Agents.

Obesity--physiopathology.

Physical Description:

x, 371 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass. : Elsevier Academic Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction and overview / Steven J. Cooper and Tim C. Kirkham

Cortical systems involved in appetite and food consumption / Morten L. Kringelbach

The nucleus accumbens shell as a model of integrative subcortical forebrain systems regulating food intake / Thomas R. Stratford

Hypothalamic neuropeptides and feeding regulation / Bernard Beck

Brainstem-hypothalamic neuropeptides and the regulation of feeding / Simon M. Luckman

The gut-brain axis in the control of eating / Thomas A. Lutz and Nori Geary

Integration of peripheral adiposity signals and psychological controls of appetite / Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann ... [et al.]

Brain reward systems for food incentives and hedonics in normal appetite and eating disorders / Kent C. Berridge

Pharmacology of food, taste and learned flavor preferences / Steven J. Cooper

The role of palatability in control of human appetite: implications for understanding and treating obesity / Martin R. Yeomans

Learned influences on appetite, food choice, and intake: evidence in human beings / E.L. Gibson and J.M. Brunstrom

Gene environment interactions and the origin of the modern obesity epidemic: a novel "nonadaptive drift" scenario / John R. Speakman

Preclinical developments in antiobesity drugs / Steven P. Vickers and Sharon C. Cheetham

Clinical investigations of antiobesity drugs / John Wilding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0123706335

9780123706331

OCLC:

79629177