Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition, 5 Vols.

From the contents:
Section 1. General Aspects of Nutrition and Diet.- Food texture and our senses.- The brain responses to food.- Influence of cholecystokinin and leptin on eating.- Brain growth and cognitive function.- Olfactory learning in the infant.- The ageing brain: neurological and immunomodulatory aspects.- The psychobiology of cognitive function and diet.- Psychoneuroendocrinology of cortisol secretion: relationship to caffeine and food intake.- Brain peptides and the control of eating.- Leptin and the central nervous system.- Oleylethanolamide and brain nuclear receptor PPAR-a.- The genomics of eating behavior.- Twin studies of eating behavior.- Diet gene interactions.- Lateral hypothalamic neuropeptides and food consumption.- Cannabinoid receptors and food consumption.- Food intake and heart rate variability.- Breast feeding and cognitive development.- Eating behavior and body weight.- Eating, hedonics, and reinforcing value of food.- Food cues and salivation.- Section2. Eating and Food Choice.- Eating patterns and body mass index.- Eating and the cannabinoid receptor.- Dysphagia: neurological and behavioral aspects in the elderly.- Impact of cardiovascular disease prevention programs on eating behavior.- Restrained eating and cognition.- Health behavior in adults: food and dietary aspects.- the control of eating: neurological and neuropeptide aspects.- Eating and corticotropin-releasing factor family peptides.- Behavioral aspects of supplement use - Event-related potentials and eating behavior.- Behavioral and psychological aspects of eating in athletes.- Body image in athletes and eating behavior.- Relationship between oral stimuli and perception.- Behavioral aspects of failure-to-thrive.- Behavioral aspects of emotional eating.- Dietary amino acids and mood.- Section 3. Mental Tasks and Performance.- Cognitive performance and high-carbohydrate and high-fat diet.- Cognitive performance and delivery rates of carbohydrate.- Phytoestrogens and

Victor R. Preedy, PhD. DSc, PRIPH, FRSH, FIBiol, FRCPath, is Director of the Genomics Centre and Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at King's College London. He is on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Cellular Pathology, Frontiers in Bioscience, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and reviews, as well as 15 books. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, in production at Springer.