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Comorbidity

Symptoms, Conditions, Behavior and Treatments

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Editors:
  1. Rhonda Brown

    1. Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  2. Einar Thorsteinsson

    1. School of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

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  • Explores how comorbidity is related to a broad range of behaviours
  • Highlights future areas for research related to co-existing symptoms and conditions
  • Offers novel treatment approaches to help clinicians in optimizing treatment for their patients
  • Demonstrates that comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction
  • Introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and their concurrent symptoms such as pain or fatigue

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Comorbidity: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

    • Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
    Pages 1-22

  3. Models of Comorbidity

    • Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
    Pages 23-41

  4. Overweight/Obesity and Concurrent Disorders, Symptoms, Behaviour, and Body Temperature

    • Rhonda Brown, Yasmine Umar
    Pages 43-77

  5. Overview of the Comorbidity Between Medical Illnesses and Overweight/Obesity

    • Christopher J. Nolan
    Pages 79-114

  6. Comorbid Eating Disorders

    • C. Laird Birmingham
    Pages 115-138

  7. Comorbid Psychiatric Illnesses

    • Einar Thorsteinsson, Rhonda Brown
    Pages 139-178

  8. Arousal States, Symptoms, Behaviour, Sleep and Body Temperature

    • Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
    Pages 179-219

  9. Design, Statistical and Methodological Considerations: Comorbidity

    • Einar Thorsteinsson, Rhonda Brown
    Pages 221-239

  10. Typing It All Together

    • Rhonda Brown, Einar Thorsteinsson
    Pages 241-274
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About this book

This book introduces a new theory on the substantial comorbidity that exists between many illnesses and disorders and concurrent symptoms such as pain, impaired sleep and fatigue. The specific illnesses and disorders discussed include obesity, diabetes mellitus type-II, medical illnesses including cardiovascular disease and sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, disordered eating such as binge-eating disorder and night-eating syndrome, affective distress (anxiety and depression), and comorbidities that are linked to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The book posits that the comorbidities are the result of a complex bio-psycho-behavioral mechanism that includes circadian rhythm dysfunction. It examines the statistical and methodological (e.g. measurement) problems that can complicate the understanding of comorbidity and explores a broad range of novel, existing, and repurposed therapy approaches that could have utility in treating comorbid disorders. 



This book will be of great value to academics as well as practitioners working in the field of psychiatry, health psychology and medicine more broadly. 







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Editors and Affiliations

  • Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Rhonda Brown

  • School of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    Einar Thorsteinsson

About the editors

Rhonda Brown is Associate Professor of Health Psychology in the Research School of Psychology at the Australian National University, Australia. With national and international collaborators, she examines predictive relationships between stress, affective distress, sleep, fatigue, and illness outcomes in patients and community-well individuals. Over the last 20 years, she has also examined work-stress, burnout, communication performance, and empathy in medical staff and medical and psychology students; as well as impaired immunity and infection comorbidity in anorexia nervosa patients. 


Einar Thorsteinsson is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He worked at La Trobe University in a fire fighting decision making lab for two years before he moved back to focus on health psychology at the University of New England where he has built national and international research collaborations covering areas such as stress, burnout, sleep, social support, depression, anxiety, adolescent coping and health, and psychological wellbeing.


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