Overview
This volume presents the first detailed account of the neurobiological mechanisms of satiation. The ten chapters of the book detail the neural, endocrine, and cellular underpinnings of the process. Authors expert in different aspects of satiation have compiled a critical overview of recent advances and current problems in this field. Recent scientific evidence has revealed that food stimuli activate satiation before the actual absorption of digested food--a significant change to the traditional perspective that satiation depends on the post-absorptive repletion of metabolic fuels. The inclusion of a chapter on the satiation of alcohol is unique in a book on food intake, and shows the convergence of ideas on satiation in these two areas. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to a wide array of advanced students and professionals, Satiation: From Gut to Brain is an authoritative and up-to-date review of every aspect of this important physiological process. Although intended primarily for neuroscientists, nutritionists, and psychobiologists, the book will also be useful for physiologists, pharmacologists, and psychologists concerned with eating and its disorders.
Full Product Details
Author: Gerard P. Smith (Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.676kg
ISBN: 9780195105155
ISBN 10: 019510515
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 29 January 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This monumental volume is a prodigious achievement in welding the work of 35 authors into a coherent whole of over a thousand pages....It is a mine of data for the systematist, ecologist, and biogeographer, and it may well be an important base line for the future evaluation of consequences of global warming. --The Quarterly Review of Biology It is the first to deal with the fundamental topic of satiation in a systematic and critical way. --Doody's Journal I greatly enjoyed this historical romp through the field of gastrointestinal satiation. --The New England Journal of Medicine
Author Information
Gerard P. Smith, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry (Behavioral Neuroscience) at Cornell University Medical College and Director of the Edward W. Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
