This book address metabolic disorders (e.g. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, overweight/obesity, disturbances in inflammatory response systems) and specifically their prevalence, mediating and moderating variables, implications for psychiatric/medical outcome, endophenotypic research, neurocognition and patient management. It is a concise relevant synthesis of extensive literature describing both pre-clinical and clinical research which scrutinises the interface between mental disorders, and both normal, and abnormal metabolic processes.