This new book address metabolic disorders (e.g. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, overweight/obesity, disturbances in inflammatory response systems) and specifically their prevalence, mediating and moderating variables, implications for psychiatric/medical outcome, endophenotypic research, neurocognition and patient management. It is a concise relevant synthesis of extant literature describing both pre-clinical and clinical research which scrutinizes the interface between mental disorders, and both normal, and abnormal metabolic processes. Contents: Preface Chapter 1 - Diabetes and Obesity; pp. 1-25
(AYY Cheng & LA Leiter, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) Chapter 2 - Metabolic Syndrome in Mood Disorders; pp. 27-38
(J. Meyer, Univ. of California, San Diego) Chapter 3 - Psychiatric Consequences of Metabolic Disruption in Mood Disorders; pp. 39-55
(A. Fagiolini, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA) Chapter 4 - Cellular Metabolism; pp. 57-73
(XM Li & H Xu (Univ. of Saskatchewan) Chapter 5 - Neurometabolism in Mood Disorders; pp. 73-92
(R.S McIntyre and J.Z Konarski(Univ. of Toronto, Canada) Chapter 6 - Neurocognitive Deficits in Mood Disorders: Synthesis and Mechanisms; pp. 93-110
(G. MacQueen and V. Taylor, MacMaster Univ.) Chapter 7 - Reproductive and Metabolic Hormone Milieu in Mood Disorders; pp. 111-146
(T. Baptista (Los Andes Univ., Venezuela)) Chapter 8 - Biology of Depression; pp. 147-172
(Charles F. Gillespie, and Charles B. Nemeroff, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia) Chapter 9 - Treating Obesity and Diabetes in Patients with Mood Disorders; pp. 173-193
(J. Beyer, Duke University, NC) Index | 
