IOS Press, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009(144), p. 16-18
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-017-9-16
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In the last few years the use of medical and biomedical ontologies has increased considerably. It is very common to find applications and semantic webs using this kind of ontologies and a large number of papers have been written explaining why ontologies are useful in these fields. In this paper the use of ontologies for psychology and its benefits is discussed and a first ontology for obesity treatment is presented.