Main description:

Like previous handbooks, the present volume is an authoritative and up-to-date compendium of information and perspective on the neurobiology of ingestive behaviors. It is intended to be stimulating and informative to the practitioner, whether neophyte or senior scholar. It is also intended to be accessible to others who do not investigate the biological bases of food and ?uid ingestion, who may teach aspects of this material or simply wonder about the current state of the ?eld. To all readers, we present this handbook as a progress report, recognizing that the present state of the ?eld is much farther along than it was the last time a handbook was published, but mindful of the likelihood that it is not as far along as it will be when the next handbook is prepared. This ?eld has witnessed a spectacular accretion of scienti?c information since the ?rst handbook was published in 1967. During the generation of science between then and the publication of the second handbook in 1990, numerous scienti?c reports have substantially changed the perspective and informational base of the ?eld.

Contents:

Behavioral Neurobiology of Ingestive Behaviors.- Accumbens Dopamine is a Physiological Correlate of the Rewarding and Motivation Effects of Food.- The CNS Physiology of Food Reward: Current Insights and Future Directions.- Neurobehavioral Analysis of Taste Function.- Psychophysical Measurement of Human Taste Experience.- Our Evolving Understanding of Peptides and the Control of Food Intake.- Brain Insulin and Obesity: From Man to C. Elegans: A Personal View.- Postnatal Development of Central Feeding Circuits.- The Caudal Brainstem and the Control of Food Intake and Energy Balance.- Metabolic Signals in the Control of Food Intake.- Gastrointestinal Signaling in the Control of Food Intake.- The Estrogenic Inhibition of Eating.- Anorexia During Disease.- Neural Mechanisms of Anorexia.- Studies of Food Intake: Lessons from Nontraditionally Studies Species.- The Control of Eating Behavior in Free-Living Humans.- Thirst.- Neurobiology of Sodium Appetite