Nutrition and Psychiatric Disorders (Nutritional Neurosciences)

Nutrition and Psychiatric Disorders Description

Nutrition and Psychiatric Disorders offers mechanistic insights into how nutrition affects metabolic pathways, nutrients in the mitochondria, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), cell signaling, and neuronal processes. The book also emphasizes how diet can be used to cure and prevent mental illness as well as to lessen the side effects of pharmacological therapy. Additionally, it investigates the connection between diet and psychiatric conditions such depression, autism, anxiety, ADHD, and OCD.

Here’s what you will learn in this book:

Front Matter

Food, Brain Functions, and Behavior

• Front Matter
• Nutrition and Brain Functions in Health and Disease
• Nutrition, Cognitive Functions, and Emotions
• Ketogenic Diet: Implications for Treatment and Injury in Neuropsychiatry and Motor Functioning
• Effects of Malnutrition on Brain Development
• Nutrition, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior
• OMICS in Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s Disease

Psychiatric Disorders Related to Nutrition: Deficiency or Overload

• Front Matter
• Effects of Depression and Antidepressant Therapy on Serum Zinc Levels
• Nutrition and Depression
• Nutritional Deficiencies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Possible Treatment Interventions
• Caffeine, Mental Well-Being, and Psychiatric Disorders
• Biopsychology of Chocolate Craving
• Food Addiction
• Nutrition and Anxiety Disorders
• Nutrition and Substance-Use Disorder
• Nutrition and Psychiatric Disorders: Focus on Schizophrenia
• High-Fat Diet and Psychiatric Disorders: What Is the Interplay?