Since psychiatric training in medical school is brief in duration (often 4-8 weeks only), and minimal to nonexistent in many residency programs, most primary care physicians are not adequately equipped to treat psychiatric disorders, despite the fact that this role promises a significant portion of the average physician's practice.

Broad in scope, Hedonic Eating: How the Pleasure of Food Affects our Brains and Behaviorexplores various behavioral, biological and social rewards of food.

The book aims to help clinicians improve the lives of their patients-and patients to improve their own lives-by identifying these secrets and taking action in ways that can work immediately, closing the science-to-practice gap.

In the last decade, much needed attention and research has been focused on the group of psychiatric conditions termed 'impulse control disorders' or ICDs. ICDs are now clearly distinguished from OCD, with a unique clinical approach for diagnosis and treatment. This is the first book to bring together medical and social knowledge bases related to these disorders.

This book is a comprehensive and systematic review of physical and mental health co-morbidities in people with intellectual disability. Such an evidence base is vital in shaping public health policy, healthcare commissioning and the development of more effective healthcare systems, and supporting better understanding and practice at individual clinical level.