9. Neurobiological Models: Implications for Patients and Families
- Bryan Lask3,4,5,
- Ian Frampton3,6
Published Online: 10 JUL 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch9
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
Eating Disorders and the Brain
Additional Information
How to Cite
Singh, I. and Wengaard, A. (2011) Neurobiological Models: Implications for Patients and Families, in Eating Disorders and the Brain (eds B. Lask and I. Frampton), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch9
Editor Information
- 3
Regional Eating Disorders Service, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo Universitetssykehus HF, Ullevål, Bygg 37, 0407 Oslo, Norway
- 4
Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders, 31 Totteridge Common, London, N20 8LR, UK
- 5
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
- 6
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
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Keywords:
- towards a comprehensive, causal and explanatory - neuroscience model of anorexia nervosa;
- neurobiological models, patients' and families' understandings of eating disorders - and receptivity to treatments;
- aetiological theories of eating disorders - informed by psychoanalytic ideas;
- better understanding of neurobiological contributions to AN - informing treatments;
- emotional and cognitive representations, patients feelings - motivatng patients to change;
- acceptance, that AN is not due to chance or bad luck - predictive factor, readiness to change;
- cultural perceptions of illness - influential, how patients understand their illness;
- stigma in psychiatric illnesses - as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and stigma in eating disorders;
- neuroscientific information, hypothesised to function - seductive detail, processing information;
- research need, impact of neurobiological account of AN - on patients and their families
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
The emergence of neurobiological models
Anorexia nervosa and illness representations
Impact of a neurobiological model on families' understandings
of anorexia nervosa
Conclusion
References