Nutrition and Diet Intervention: The Prevention and Early Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunction
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 4645
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cognitive aging; neurophysiology; imaging; diet interventions
Interests: diet interventions; cognitive aging; Alzheimer’s disease; gut microbiome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue to collect recent research and ideas on nutritional strategies for preventing or treating cognitive dysfunction. By the year 2050, one quarter of the global population will be older than 65 years of age, and a large proportion of these individuals will suffer cognitive decline that threatens independence, quality of life, and imposes a massive financial burden on both family and health care systems. Thus, developing new strategies for improving late-life cognition is vital. Diet is a modifiable lifestyle factor that can be leveraged as an accessible intervention for the rapidly expanding population of older adults. Recently, there has been an emergence of empirical data that evaluate the potential health benefits of various diet inventions, including therapeutic ketosis, intermittent fasting, the Mediterranean diet, antioxidant-promoting diets, and others. While much of this research was initially conducted in the context of chronic disease management and lifespan studies, there is both theoretical and empirical support for the notion that diet interventions can improve cognition or stall decline.
In this special of issue of Nutrients, we welcome original research articles, animal and clinical studies, as well as review articles on the current state of research that examines diet interventions for preventing or treating cognitive dysfunction associated with advancing age or diseases of the nervous system.
Dr. Sara N. Burke
Dr. Abbi R. Hernandez
Guest Editors
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