About this Research Topic
Mood disorders, including depression, anxiety, bipolar spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, increasingly plague citizens around the globe and represent serious public health concerns. Current psychopharmacological treatments for mood disorders have limited efficacy and potential side effects. Epidemiological evidence has suggested that the incidence/prevalence of mood disorders may be closely related to nutritional status. Investigating the roles of nutritional status in causality, morbidity, and mortality may lead to complementary methods for the treatment or, potentially, prevention of the onset of mood disorders. Therefore, nutritional intervention, via dietary modification as well as macro- or micronutrient supplementation, is an emerging field of interest in treatment research for psychiatric disorders. The nascent field of 'Nutritional Psychiatry' offers much promise for addressing the large disease burden associated with mental disorders.
In order to help researchers gain current knowledge about the impact of nutrition on mental health, this special issue is proposed to seek original works or reviews addressing the relationship between nutrition and mood disorders, as well as nutritional strategies to alleviate mood disorders. Studies investigating the relationship between nutrition and mood disorders can be characterized into two categories: habitual diet pattern analysis and macro- or micronutrient intake/status analysis. With the initiative in proposing this Research Topic, we hope that the findings published can provide significant information for the extensive use of these nutritional strategies to alleviate mood disorders.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Epidemiological, observational, and prospective research of the correlation between nutrition (including dietary patterns as well as macro- or micronutrient supplementation) and mood disorders.
2. Preclinical research of the correlation between nutrition (including dietary patterns as well as macro- or micronutrient supplementation) and mood disorders.
3. The biological pathways that mediate the observed relationships between diet, nutrition, and mental health, such as the immune system, oxidative biology, brain plasticity, and the microbiome-gut-brain axis, which may act as key targets for nutritional interventions.
4. Psychoprotective effects and underlying mechanism of psychobiotics (including probiotics and prebiotics) on the prevention of mood disorders.
5. The review related to the above topics.
Topic Editor Xiaoshuan Dai is employed by BGI. All other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.
In order to help researchers gain current knowledge about the impact of nutrition on mental health, this special issue is proposed to seek original works or reviews addressing the relationship between nutrition and mood disorders, as well as nutritional strategies to alleviate mood disorders. Studies investigating the relationship between nutrition and mood disorders can be characterized into two categories: habitual diet pattern analysis and macro- or micronutrient intake/status analysis. With the initiative in proposing this Research Topic, we hope that the findings published can provide significant information for the extensive use of these nutritional strategies to alleviate mood disorders.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Epidemiological, observational, and prospective research of the correlation between nutrition (including dietary patterns as well as macro- or micronutrient supplementation) and mood disorders.
2. Preclinical research of the correlation between nutrition (including dietary patterns as well as macro- or micronutrient supplementation) and mood disorders.
3. The biological pathways that mediate the observed relationships between diet, nutrition, and mental health, such as the immune system, oxidative biology, brain plasticity, and the microbiome-gut-brain axis, which may act as key targets for nutritional interventions.
4. Psychoprotective effects and underlying mechanism of psychobiotics (including probiotics and prebiotics) on the prevention of mood disorders.
5. The review related to the above topics.
Topic Editor Xiaoshuan Dai is employed by BGI. All other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.
Keywords: Nutrition, Mood disorders, Dietary patterns, Nutrients, Nutritional strategies, Psychobiotics, Gut-brain axis
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