Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders - Rilegato

Arnold, Carrie

 
9780415898669: Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders
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ISBN 10: 0415898668 ISBN 13: 9780415898669
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Sinossi

Decoding Anorexia is the first and only book to explain anorexia nervosa from a biological point of view. Its clear, user-friendly descriptions of the genetics and neuroscience behind the disorder is paired with first person descriptions and personal narratives of what biological differences mean to sufferers. Author Carrie Arnold, a trained scientist, science writer, and past sufferer of anorexia, speaks with clinicians, researchers, parents, other family members, and sufferers about the factors that make one vulnerable to anorexia, the neurochemistry behind the call of starvation, and why it’s so hard to leave anorexia behind. She also addresses:
• How environment is still important and influences behaviors
• The characteristics of people at high risk for developing anorexia nervosa
• Why anorexics find starvation “rewarding”
• Why denial is such a salient feature, and how sufferers can overcome it
Carrie also includes interviews with key figures in the field who explain their work and how it contributes to our understanding of anorexia. Long thought to be a psychosocial disease of fickle teens, this book alters the way anorexia is understood and treated and gives patients, their doctors, and their family members hope.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Carrie Arnold is a freelance science writer and blogs daily at EDBites.com. She is an advisor to the advocacy organization FEAST (Families Empowered And Supporting the Treatment of Eating Disorders) and regularly appears at national and international eating disorder conferences.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415898668
ISBN 13 
9780415898669
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
214
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  0415898676 ISBN 13:  9780415898676
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012
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