Nutrition and Brain Health: From Cognitive Resilience to Neurodegenerative and Mental Health Outcomes
A Special Issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643) belonging to the section "Geriatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2027 | Viewed by 29
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition is increasingly recognised as a potentially modifiable determinant of brain health across the life course, with implications for cognitive resilience, cognitive ageing, neurodegenerative disorders and mental health. Growing evidence suggests that dietary patterns, specific nutrients and bioactive compounds, metabolic health and gut–brain–microbiome pathways may influence cognitive function, psychological well-being, physical and functional capacity and trajectories of brain ageing. Nutrition may also support cognitive resilience, defined as the maintenance of cognitive and everyday function despite age-related biological, vascular or neurodegenerative burden.
However, important questions remain regarding the effectiveness and real-world applicability of nutritional interventions, underlying biological and behavioural mechanisms, variations in response across populations and how nutrition-based strategies can be adapted and implemented across diverse cultural, clinical and health-system contexts.
This Special Issue will bring together rigorous research examining nutrition and brain health across healthy ageing, cognitive decline, neurodegenerative conditions and mental health. We welcome observational, longitudinal and interventional studies; translational, mechanistic and implementation research and high-quality systematic reviews, meta-analyses and focused narrative reviews. Relevant topics include dietary patterns; foods, nutrients and supplementation; diet–metabolism–brain pathways; the gut–brain–microbiome axis; culturally adapted and personalised nutrition and multidomain approaches integrating nutrition with physical activity, sleep, social engagement and other determinants of healthy ageing and intrinsic capacity.
Dr. Iris Rawtaer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition and brain health
- cognitive resilience
- cognitive ageing
- neurodegenerative disorders
- mental health
- gut–brain–microbiome axis
- dietary patterns
- healthy ageing
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