Diet, Lifestyle and Cognition
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 July 2024 | Viewed by 2474
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geriatrics; frail elderly; dementia; oncogeriatrics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aging population displays wide heterogeneity in the response, adaptation, and age-related physiological changes throughout the life course. Therefore, aging should be considered to be a process in which chronological and biological age interact, drawing different individualized clinical trajectories and favoring a fitness or frailty status, which is a status of reduced physiological reserve characterized by higher vulnerability to environmental stressors. The latter is the basis of pathological and less healthy aging. In particular, brain aging and cognitive performance reflect this differentiated pacing and strictly interact with frailty that has shown to modulate the clinical expression of dementia especially in later life.
The multifactorial nature of biological aging is initially determined by the genetic profile of each person, which will largely establish part of the molecular changes and the rate of functional decline of the organic systems throughout the aging process. However, it has been demonstrated that molecular changes and functional decline are determined not only by genetics but also by other dimensions, among which lifestyles, including nutrition and physical activity/exercise, may influence both dimensions and consequently the evolution of the biological age. Therefore, it is important to fully determine how lifestyles such as nutritional pattern and physical activity affect the principal physiological and psychological changes that occur in aging. In particular, there is increasing evidence about the effects of diet quality, adherence to a Mediterranean diet, and physical activity/exercise behaviors on frailty, cognition, and aging. In this regard, frailty and cognitive decline are two of the most relevant consequences associated with the aging process affecting quality of life, function, and independence in older adults.
This Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Diet, Lifestyle and Cognition”, describes how lifestyles, including nutrition and physical activity, influence cognition and cognitive disorders such as mild cognitive impairment, dementia of the Alzheimer type, and other types of dementia with innovative strategies for potential preventative approaches.
In this Special Issue, both basic and clinical research studies will be accepted.
The submission of manuscripts describing either original research or systematic reviews and meta-analyses are welcome.
Dr. Fiammetta Monacelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mild cognitive impairment
- dementia
- nutrition
- preventative strategies
