Nutritional psychiatry: a new approach in mental health support

There is an increasing interest in modifying lifestyle factors to improve mental health. Nutritional psychiatry is a novel concept that aims to expand the knowledge of how dietary compounds affect mental health outcomes. There are many reasons to include diet as a co-therapy of psychiatric disease or their preventive strategy. Individuals with psychiatric diseases usually have improper nutritional habits, which lowers their quality of life and increases the risk of somatic complications. Incomplete response to therapy and the efficacy of some nutrients as an adjunct therapy to treatment indicates the importance of nutrition in the psycho-prevention and management of psychiatric disorders.

The research topics aim to contribute to our understanding of the role of nutrition and disseminate the interplay between nutrition and psychiatric disease. We want to provide evidence of new nutritional approaches to preventing and managing psychiatric disease. We will create a platform for researchers and practitioners working with patients to share knowledge and experiences. We are committed to promoting interdisciplinary and innovative methods to support mental health.

We welcome submissions of original research, reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, hypotheses, study protocols, and case reports on this topic.

The proposed collection will cover topics such as:

- Gut-brain axis and probiotics in psychiatric disease

- Mediterranean diet in psychiatric disease;

- Inflammation and anti-inflammatory diet or food compounds in psychiatric disease;

- Ketogenic diet in psychiatric disease;

- Elimination diet in psychiatric diseases;

- Antipsychotic-associated weight gain;

- Assessment of dietary habits of individuals with psychiatric disease;

- Quality of the diet and risk of psychiatric disease.