🧠 Brain Food Digest: novel approach to pediatric epilepsy treatment, CoQ10 as adjunct to depression treatment and more

What's New in Nutrition and Brain Health

Today's research summary includes: a novel dietary approach to pediatric epilepsy treatment, dietary factors in Alzheimer's disease risk, validation of a mindful eating score for the general population, the potential for Coenzyme Q10 as an adjuvant treatment for depression, and much more. Inclusive of publication dates 05/01/24-05/31/24, Part 1

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Sarah Ferreira, MS, MPH, RD

Research Area

• Cognitive Function, Memory and Neurodegeneration

• Migraines, Epilepsy and Other Neurological

• Mood and Mental Health

• Eating Disorders

• Addiction, Eating Behavior and Food Choice

• Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

• Other

Cognitive Function, Memory and Neurodegeneration

• A bibliometric analysis on the health behaviors related to mild cognitive impairment

• Are age-related neurodegenerative diseases caused by a lack of the diet-derived compound ergothioneine?

• Association of aquatic food consumption, long-chain polyunsaturated n-3 fatty acid intake, and blood mercury levels with cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults

• Association of dietary and nutritional factors with cognitive decline, dementia, and depressive symptomatology in older individuals according to a neurogenesis-centred biological susceptibility to brain ageing 

• Consumption of Olive Oil and Diet Quality and Risk of Dementia-Related Death 

• Curcumin and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as bioactive food components with synergistic effects on Alzheimer's disease 

• Deep Learning-Driven Exploration of Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Neuroprotective Activity in Alzheimer's Disease 

• Development of dietary small molecules as multi-targeting treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease 

• Development of Malaysian-MIND diet scores for prediction of mild cognitive impairment among older adults in Malaysia

• Dietary factors and Alzheimer's disease risk: a Mendelian randomization study 

• Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA), Vitamin D3, and Probiotics Supplementation Improve Memory, Glial Reactivity, and Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in an Aluminum-Induced Cognitive Impairment Rat Model

• Effects of a Multicomponent Intervention With Cognitive Training and Lifestyle Guidance for Older Adults at Risk of Dementia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Emerging evidence that ginseng components improve cognition in subjective memory impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and early Alzheimer's disease dementia

• ESPEN guideline on nutrition and hydration in dementia - Update 2024 

• Intermittent Metabolic Switching and Vascular Cognitive Impairment

• Mechanistic insights into the potential role of dietary polyphenols and their nanoformulation in the management of Alzheimer's disease

• Naringenin mitigates aluminum toxicity-induced learning memory impairments and neurodegeneration through amelioration of oxidative stress 

• Mushroom intake and risk of incident disabling dementia: the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS)

• Nutrition for dementia prevention: a state of the art update for clinicians

• Outcomes after intervention for enteral nutrition in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in multidisciplinary clinics 

• Role of vitamin B12 and folic acid in treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis of randomized control trials

• Selenium from fish consumption may protect against cognitive impairment: could selenoneine be involved?

• The Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Brain Gene Expressions in Type 2 Diabetes Background

Migraines, Epilepsy and Other Neurological

• A 12-week randomized double-blind clinical trial of eicosapentaenoic acid intervention in episodic migraine

• Characterizing Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Neurology Outpatients: A Retrospective Observational Study

• Control of seizure-like dynamics in neuronal populations with excitability adaptation related to ketogenic diet

• Dietary management for pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy due to α-aminoadipic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency, a follow-on from the international consortium guidelines

• Efficacy and safety of herbal medicine combined with acupuncture in pediatric epilepsy treatment: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Glutamate-reduced diet and ketogenic diet for pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy: a novel approach to treatment

• Implications of high homocysteine levels in migraine pain: An experimental study of the excitability of peripheral meningeal afferents in rats with hyperhomocysteinemia

• Successful treatment of restless legs syndrome accompanied by headaches for 30 years with herbal prescriptions containing Paeoniae Radix: A case report

• The effect of selenium supplementation on oxidative stress, clinical symptoms and mental health status in patients with migraine: a study protocol for a double-blinded randomized clinical trial

Mood and Mental Health

• Addressing methodological concerns in omega-3 trial for bipolar disorder relapse prevention

• Association between dietary spermidine intake and depressive symptoms among US adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2014

• Association of dietary vitamin C intake with depression in adults: A cross-sectional study of NHANES from 2005 to 2020

• Comparison of Dutch healthy eating and healthy eating indexes and anthropometry in patients with major depression with health subjects: a case-control study

• Discovering the Potential Value of Coenzyme Q10 as an Adjuvant Treatment in Patients With Depression

• High-fat diet, microbiome-gut-brain axis signaling, and anxiety-like behavior in male rats

• High sugar consumption for seven days in adult mice increased blood glucose variability, induced an anxiolytic effect and triggered oxidative stress in cerebral cortex 

• Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health in Bipolar and Schizophrenia: A Pilot Trial

• Metabolic Status Influences Probiotic Efficacy for Depression-PRO-DEMET Randomized Clinical Trial Results

• Omega-3 fatty acids for inflamed depression - A match/mismatch study

• Pesticide-Induced Alterations in Locomotor Activity, Anxiety, and Depression-like Behavior Are Mediated through Oxidative Stress-Related Autophagy: A Persistent Developmental Study in Mice

• Sex-specific effects of sucrose withdrawal on anxiety-like behavior and neuroimmune response

• Vitamin B12 Supplementation in Psychiatric Practice

Eating Disorders

• A prospective observational study examining weight and psychosocial change in adolescent and adult eating disorder inpatients admitted for nutritional rehabilitation using a high-energy re-feeding protocol

• Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder prevalence is high in children with gastroparesis and functional dyspepsia

• Course of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Emergence of overvaluation of shape/weight

• Current state of rumination syndrome

• Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders

• Prospective Two-Year Course and Predictors of Outcome in Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

• Retraction Note: Metabolomic profiling of amino acid alterations in anorexia nervosa: implications for appetite regulation and therapeutic strategies

• Risk Factors for Eating Disorders in University Students: The RUNEAT Study

• Severe hypoglycemia with reduced liver volume as an indicator of end-stage malnutrition in patients with anorexia nervosa: a retrospective observational study

• The potential use of daridorexant in eating disorders: beyond the treatment of insomnia? 

• Virtually delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (CBT-AR): a case study in an adult with elevated autistic traits

Addiction, Eating Behavior and Food Choice

• An acute social stressor decreases reinforcing value of both high and low energy-dense food in college students in a randomized controlled trial

• Brazilian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Individuals with Severe Obesity

• Common genetic factors for uncontrolled eating mechanisms

• Development and validation of the mindful eating scale (mind-eat scale) in a general population

• Food approach and avoidance craving: A partial test of the Ambivalence Model of Craving

• Natural products as the therapeutic strategies for addiction

• The burden of overweight/obesity and weight-related behaviors attributable to food addiction in emerging adults

• The Intuitive Eating Scale-3: Development and psychometric evaluation

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

• Choline chloride shows gender-dependent positive effects on social deficits, learning/memory impairments, neuronal loss and neuroinflammation in the lipopolysaccharide-induced rat model of autism

• Early-life nutrition is associated with processing speed at age 5 in children born preterm with very low birth weight

• Maternal high fat diet programs spatial learning and central leptin signaling in mouse offspring in a sex-specific manner 

• Maternal selenium deficiency during pregnancy in association with autism and ADHD traits in children: The Odense Child Cohort

• Plasma fatty acids and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a Mendelian randomization investigation

• Pre-pregnancy maternal obesity and infant neurodevelopmental outcomes in Latino infants

• The effects of paternal dietary fat versus sugar on offspring body composition and anxiety-related behavior

Other

• Effects of a Flavonoid-Rich Blackcurrant Beverage on Markers of the Gut-Brain Axis in Healthy Females: Secondary Findings From a 4-Week Randomized Crossover Control Trial

• Pomegranate polyphenol punicalin ameliorates lipopolysaccharide-induced memory impairment, behavioral disorders, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation via inhibition of TLR4-NF-кB pathway

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