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Metabolic Syndrome and Psychiatric Illness: Interactions, Pathophysiology, Assessment and Treatment
By Scott D. Mendelson
203 pp, $99.95
New York, NY, Elsevier Academic Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-1237-4240-7
JAMA. 2008;300(15):1824-1825.
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In the opening chapter of Metabolic Syndrome and Psychiatric Illness, the author disarmingly states that his goal in writing the book was to provide "a psychiatrist's perspective on metabolic syndrome"—but readers should note that Scott Mendelson is not just any psychiatrist. With doctorates in both medicine and biophysics, postdoctoral research training at Rockefeller University's renowned Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, and experience as director of Adult Psychiatry at Mercy Medical Center in Oregon, Mendelson brings a ringside perspective to his writing. Indeed, this book is a brilliant and scholarly synthesis of one of the hottest topics at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.
The book's foreword, by biological psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, elegantly summarizes the status quo. Metabolic and cardiovascular illnesses are taking a disproportionate toll on today's psychiatric patients. Patients with chronic mental illnesses may not have access to regular medical care and may lead unhealthy lifestyles, and their physical conditions . . . [Full Text of this Article]
P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD, Reviewer
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
dorai001@mc.duke.edu
Mohan M. Chilukuri, MD, Reviewer
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
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