Diet Impacts on Brain and Mind

A comprehensive and critical overview of how what you eat (or don't) affects your brain and behaviour.

Richard J. Stevenson (Author), Heather Francis (Author)

9781108719155, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 February 2023

250 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.72 kg

'This book provides a highly detailed and authoritative look at the role of diet on mind and brain. While the focus is very much on human nutrition, the authors bring in relevant animal research when trying to understand mechanism.' Charles Spence, University of Oxford, UK

Everybody eats, and what we eat – or do not – affects the brain and mind. There is significant general, applied, academic, and industry interest about nutrition and the brain, yet there is much misinformation and no single reliable guide. Diet Impacts on Brain and Mind provides a comprehensive account of this emerging multi-disciplinary science, exploring the acute and chronic impacts of human diet on the brain and mind. It has a primarily human focus and is broad in scope, covering wide-ranging topics like brain development, whole diets, specific nutrients, research methodology, and food as a drug. It is written in an accessible format and is of interest to undergraduate and graduate students studying nutritional neuroscience and related disciplines, healthcare professionals with an applied interest, industry researchers seeking topic overviews, and interested general readers.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Pregnancy, infancy and development
3. Acute effects of food intake
4. Chronic effects of food intake – Western-style diets
5. Dietary neurotoxins
6. Neuroprotective effects of diet
7. Food-related drugs and food as a drug
8. Starvation and caloric restriction in adults
9. Essential nutrient deficiencies in adults
10. Implications and conclusions.

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Dietetics & nutrition [MBNH3], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]