Table of Contents

1. Basic principles of nutrition Eileen Gibney; 2. Diet and the microbiome-gut-brain axis: Feeding your microbes for mental health benefit Kenneth J. O'Riordan, Elizabeth Schneider, Ger Clarke and John F. Cryan; 3. The Mediterranean diet and mental health Mary I. Butler and Sabrina Mörkl; 4. Psychobiotics and fermented foods Ted Dinan; 5. Diet interventions for anxiety and depression Heidi M. Staudacher, Scott Teasdale, Caitlin Cowan, Rachelle Opie, Tetyana Rocks and Felice N. Jacka; 6. Schizophrenia, Microbiota and Nutrition John R. Kelly; 7. Recognising the importance of nutrition for child and adolescent mental health Cohen Kadosh and Dr Nicola Johnstone; 8. Old age and nutrition Ivan Aprahamian, Andréia de Oliveira Pain and Sandra Maria Lima Ribeiro; 9. Broad-spectrum micronutrients and mental health Julia J. Rucklidge, Jeanette M. Johnstone, Amelia Villagomez, Noshene Ranjbar and Bonnie J. Kaplan; 10. Epigenetics Lynda Sedley.

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The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the relationship between nutrition and mental health for clinicians.

About the Author

Professor Ted Dinan is Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University College Cork. His main research interest is in the role of the gut microbiota in stress-related disorders. In 2019, he was ranked as the number 1 global expert on the microbiota by Expertscape. He has also worked extensively on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. He has published over 550 papers, written numerous books on pharmacology and neurobiology and is on the Editorial Boards of several journals.