Meet the editor

Since 2015, Professor Dr. Med. Hubertus Himmerich has been a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Eating Disorders at King's College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist on an inpatient ward for patients with eating disorders at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, UK. After studying medicine, he received his scientific and clinical training at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and the Universities of Mainz and Marburg, Germany.

In 2009 he was appointed Professor for Neurobiology of Affective Disorders at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His scientific focuses include appetite regulation, psychoimmunology and military mental health. He has led and performed national and international scientific projects with researchers from Europe, Australia and North America, and has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books and book chapters.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Upasana*

Anorexia Nervosa

**Section 2**

*by Fatima Elif Ergüney Okumuş*

*and Jane de Eston Armond*

*by Shahdevi Kurniawan*

Diagnostic Methods in Childhood Obesity

*by Leonardo de Souza Piber, Patrícia Colombo-Souza* 

Obesity: A Risk Factor for Infection after Surgery *by José Alonso Suclla-Velásquez and Connie Smedts*

Calcium Dyshomeostasis in Neuropathy Diabetes

*by Ermal Bojdani, Flavia De Souza, Aishwarya Rajagopalan, Anderson Chen, Alesia A. Cloutier, Troy R. Nold and Dil Tahera*

Hyponatremia and Psychiatric Diseases

Weight Management: Inflammation

Orexin and Psychoneurobiology: A Hidden Treasure

**Preface XI**

Etiological and Diagnostic Aspects of Weight-Related Disorders **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 45**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 85**

Health Consequences of Weight-Related Disorders **101**

**Chapter 6 103**

**Chapter 7 115**

**Chapter 8 133**

Risk and Maintenance Factors for Eating Disorders: An Exploration of Multivariate Models on Clinical and Non-Clinical Populations *by Stefania Cella, Mara Iannaccone, Annarosa Cipriano and Paolo Cotrufo*

*by Hayder M. Alkuraishy, Ali I. Al-Gareeb and Naseer A. Al-Harchan*
