11. Future Directions

  1. Bryan Lask1,2,3,
  2. Ian Frampton1,4
  1. Ian Frampton1,4,
  2. Bryan Lask1,2,3

Published Online: 10 JUL 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch11

Book Title

Eating Disorders and the Brain

Eating Disorders and the Brain

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How to Cite

Frampton, I. and Lask, B. (2011) Future Directions, in Eating Disorders and the Brain (eds B. Lask and I. Frampton), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch11

Editor Information

  1. 1

    Regional Eating Disorders Service, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Universitetssykehus HF, Ullevål, Bygg 37, 0407 Oslo, Norway

  2. 2

    Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders, 31 Totteridge Common, London, N20 8LR, UK

  3. 3

    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

  4. 4

    College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK

Author Information

  1. 1

    Regional Eating Disorders Service, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Universitetssykehus HF, Ullevål, Bygg 37, 0407 Oslo, Norway

  2. 2

    Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders, 31 Totteridge Common, London, N20 8LR, UK

  3. 3

    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

  4. 4

    College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 10 JUL 2011
  2. Published Print: 26 AUG 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470670033

Online ISBN: 9781119998402

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Keywords:

  • future directions, potential neurobiological basis - for eating disorders, trend in psychiatry;
  • role of brain in psychiatric disorders - origins of neuropsychiatry and neurophysiology;
  • new technologies, and neurobiological bases of psychological processes - neuroscientific account of eating disorders;
  • neuroscience perspective - reframing psychological causal factors, at neurobiological levels;
  • causal neuroscience accounts - saying something about specific comorbidities in patients;
  • reforming eating-disorder diagnoses - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5) for adult and child patients;
  • eating-disorders research community - and global neuropsychological assessment battery, the Ravello Profile;
  • psychological treatments - neuroscience, why no first-line approach for AN has been identified;
  • neuroscience, and prevention efforts - reliable biomarkers, risk detected prior to manifest disorder;
  • ‘connectomics,’ an emerging field - mapping regions of brain containing millions of cells

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Cause

  • Assessment and diagnosis

  • Treatment

  • Prevention

  • Future directions

  • Conclusion

  • References

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