Comorbidity

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.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Comorbidity: What is it and why is it important?; Rhonda Brown and Einar Thorsteinsson.-  Chapter 2: Models of Comorbidity; Rhonda Brown and Einar Thorsteinsson.- Chapter 3: Overweight/Obesity and Concurrent Disorders, Symptoms, Behaviour and Body Temperature; Rhonda Brown and Yasmine Umar.- Chapter 4: Overview of the Comorbidity between Medical Illnesses and Overweight/ Obesity; Christopher J Nolan.- Chapter 5: Comorbid Eating Disorders; C. Laird Birmingham.- Chapter 6: Comorbid psychiatric illnesses; Einar Thorsteinsson and Rhonda Brown.- Chapter 7: Arousal States, Symptoms, Behaviour, Sleep, and Body Temperature; Rhonda Brown and Einar Thorsteinsson.- Chapter 8: Design, statistical and methodological considerations: Comorbidity; Einar Thorsteinsson and Rhonda Brown.- Chapter 9: Typing It All Together; Rhonda Brown and Einar Thorsteinsson.