Table of Contents

1.The study of ingestive behaviour: general issues (N.E. Rowland). 2. Analysis of feeding and drinking patterns (P.G. Clifton). 3. Operant methodologies for studying feeding and drinking (G. Collier). 4. Methods of investigating human eating behaviour (M. Hetherington and B.J. Rolls). 5. How to measure learned control of food or water intake (D.A. Booth). 6. Evaluating taste effects on ingestive behaviour (H.J. Grill, A.C. Spector, G.J. Schwartz, J.M. Kaplan and F.W. Flynn). 7. Development of ingestive behaviour (C.B. Phifer and W.G. Hall). 8. Drugs and hormones: their effects on ingestion (S.J. Cooper). 9. The neurochemistry of ingestion: chemical simulation of the brain and in vivo measurement of transmitter release (S.F. Leibowitz and R.D. Myers).10. Surgical methods in the study of ingestive behaviour (H.S. Koopmans). 11. Strategies for studying ingestive behaviour in large domestic and feral animals (K.A. and T.R. Houpt). 12. Some methods for investigating thirst and sodium appetite (J. Fitzsimons). 13. Diet selection: principles, rules and suggestions (T.W. Castonguay). 14. Physiological and biochemical measurements in relation to feeding (I. Ramirez). 15. Animal and human body fat changes: measurement and interpretation (T.J. Bartness). 16. Some conceptual and comparative aspects of body composition analysis (C.M. Pond). 17. The application of theory, modelling and simulation to feeding and drinking (F.M. Toates and R.A.S. Evans). Subject index.