1. Why Clinicians Should Love Neuroscience: the Clinical Relevance of Contemporary Knowledge
- Bryan Lask1,2,3,
- Ian Frampton1,4
Published Online: 10 JUL 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch1
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Eating Disorders and the Brain
Additional Information
How to Cite
Wood, D. (2011) Why Clinicians Should Love Neuroscience: the Clinical Relevance of Contemporary Knowledge, in Eating Disorders and the Brain (eds B. Lask and I. Frampton), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch1
Editor Information
- 1
Regional Eating Disorders Service, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Universitetssykehus HF, Ullevål, Bygg 37, 0407 Oslo, Norway
- 2
Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders, 31 Totteridge Common, London, N20 8LR, UK
- 3
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
- 4
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 10 JUL 2011
- Published Print: 26 AUG 2011
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780470670033
Online ISBN: 9781119998402
- Summary
- Chapter
- References
Keywords:
- clinicians, and need for embracing neuroscience - clinical relevance of contemporary knowledge;
- clinicians, uneasy relationship with neuroscience - tension, between these fields;
- neuroscientific study, and neuroscientists absorbed - loosing sight of clinical relevance;
- legacy of mind–body dualism - clinical work and neuroscience, a dualistic thinking;
- dualist accounts, and emotion - alive in clinicians' unshakeable belief that AN, a ‘brain’ disease;
- free will and determinism - human beings, choosing their destiny, a dualist position;
- avoidance of energy intake, those suffering anorexia nervosa (AN) - drive, to expend energy;
- aetiology, and apperception - new experience, transformed by past experience, a new whole;
- neuroscience, framework - understanding aetiology of complex behavioural phenotypes;
- self-regulation, or homeostasis - capacity of organisms, internal state within limits, for survival
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
The legacy of mind–body dualism
Free will and determinism
Clinical implications
Restriction of energy intake and increase in energy output
Non-eating-related concerns
In-the-beginning questions: the problem of aetiology in eating disorders
The temporal, ‘vertical’ aetiological dimension
The spatial, ‘horizontal’ aetiological dimension
The importance of a neuroscientific aetiological framework
Conclusion
References