Two very important topics in infants, children and adolescents are brought together in this one issue: Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia) and Obesity. The issue is divided into four sections: Clinical Aspects, Etiology and Neurobiology, Treatment and Prevention, and Outcome. Articles cover diagnostic issues, psychiatric comorbidity, risk factors, neuroimaging, neurobiology, treatment modalities, cognitive behavioral approaches, family intervention, pharmacotherapy, prevention, and outcome. Contents: Foreword:Too little.too much.just right
Harsh K. Trivedi Preface xvii
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann and Johannes Hebebrand Section I: Diagnostic Concerns Diagnostic Issues in Eating Disorders and Obesity 1
Johannes Hebebrand Eating Disorders of Infancy and Childhood: Definition, Symptomatology, Epidemiology, and Comorbidity 17
Dasha Nicholls and Rachel Bryant-Waugh Adolescent Eating Disorders: Definitions, Symptomatology, Epidemiology and Comorbidity 31
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Pediatric Obesity 49
Johannes Hebebrand and Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann Section II: Etiologic and Neurobiologic Findings Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors for Eating Disorders: What the Clinician Needs to Know 67
Suzanne E. Mazzeo and Cynthia M. Bulik Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors in Obesity 83
Johannes Hebebrand and Anke Hinney Neuroimaging in Eating Disorders and Obesity: Implications for Research 95
Frederique Van den Eynde and Janet Treasure Leptin-Mediated neuroendocrine Alterations in Anorexia Nervosa: Somatic and Behavioral Implications 117
Timo D. Muller, Manuel Focker, Kristian Holtkamp, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, and Johannes Hebebrand Section III: Treatment Modalities Overview ofTreatment Modalities in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa 131
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann and Harriet Salbach-Andrae Cognitive Behavioral Approaches in Adolescent Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa 147
Ulrike Schmidt Family Interventions in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
Daniel le Grange and Ivan Eisler Pharmacotherapy for Eating Disorders and Obesity
Pauline S. Powers and Heidi Bruty Evidence-Based Behavioral Treatment of Obesity in Children and Adolescents
Laura Stewart, John J. Reilly, and Adrienne R. Hughes Preventing Eating Disorders
Heather Shaw, Eric Stice, and Carolyn Black Becker Obesity Prevention in Children and Adolescents
Boyd Swinburn Outcome of Eating Disorders 225
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen Index | 
