Nutrition and Brain Health Across the Lifespan: Insights into Mental, Cognitive, and Sleep Outcomes in Health and Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Neuro Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutritional psychiatry; gut–brain axis; neuroscience; psychobiotics; functional foods; inflammation
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Interests: gut microbiota and microbiome; functional foods; clinical nutrition; metagenomics and microbial genomics; metabolomics; metabolic health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is growing evidence that nutrition is vital role for supporting mental well-being, cognitive function, and sleep health through varied interacting biological and neural mechanisms. This Special Issue invites cutting-edge contributions from in vitro, preclinical, and human studies, including cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention-based designs, that explore how nutrition influences brain health across the human lifespan, from early development to older adulthood. We are particularly interested in work that investigates or elucidates underlying mechanistic pathways in both healthy individuals and clinical populations across all stages of life. We welcome a wide range of manuscript types, including original research articles, systematic, narrative and scoping reviews, meta-analyses, short communications, and commentaries and perspectives.
Dr. Piril Hepsomali
Prof. Dr. Adele Costabile
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutritional psychiatry and neuroscience
- gut microbiome
- oral microbiome
- gut–brain axis
- systemic and neuroinflammation
- cognitive function
- mental health
- sleep and circadian rhythms
- cognitive development
- infant and child brain health
- adolescent mental health
- aging and cognitive decline
- psychobiotics
- functional foods
- nutrition
- diet
- brain imaging
- neurotransmitters
- non-communicable diseases
- metabolic disorders
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