Implications for Treatment

Eating Disorders and the Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 191-206

  Lindvall, Camilla ^a   Lask, Bryan ^a,b,c  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Ellern Mede Service for Eating Disorders   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distress relief scenario intense anxiety at mealtimes, use of anxiolytics; Eating disorders among the most misunderstood of all illnesses; Enhancing visuospatial abilities CRT tasks, visuospatial abilities, patient's ability in recognising different objects; Medication, and a novel approach remediating neurocognitive deficits; Neuroscience of eating disorders mysterious, complex and irrelevant to treatment; Psychological treatment, brain lesions remediating power of cognitive training; Psychopharmacology treatment of eating disorder; comorbidity and relief of distress; Psychopharmacology, better established in bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED); Three exercises to 'seeing the bigger picture' Geometric Figures, Optical Illusions and Summarising; Treatment implications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883158894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998402.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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