Research Catalog

Title

Nutrition and behavior : a multidisciplinary approach / John Worobey, Beverly J. Tepper and Robin B. Kanarek.

Author

Worobey, John

Publication

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Tepper, Beverly J.
• Kanarek, Robin B.

Description

vi, 266 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Human behavior > Nutritional aspects
• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Behavior
• Malnutrition
• Overnutrition

Note

• Preceded by Nutrition and behavior / John Worobey, Beverly J. Tepper and Robin B. Kanarek ; with a contribution by Kristen E. D'Anci. c2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Concepts and models in nutrition and behavior -- Research methods and analytic strategies -- Direct effects of nutrition on behavior : brain-behavior connections -- Short-term effects of nutrition on behavior : neurotransmitters -- Effects of chronic and acute forms of undernutrition -- B vitamins, the central nervous system, and behavior -- Minerals, the central nervous system, and behavior -- Dietary supplements and mental functioning -- Bio-behavioral and psychosocial influences on food selection -- Dietary sugar and behavior -- Caffeine, the methylxanthines, and behavior -- Alcohol, brain functioning and behavior -- Eating disorder syndromes: anorexia and bulimia nervosa -- Behavioral aspects of overweight and obesity.

ISBN

• 9781780644448
• 1780644442
• 9781780644455
• 1780644450

LCCN

2015011597

OCLC

• ocn905685837
• 905685837
• SCSB-14174345

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries