Nutritional Neuroscience

From Bench to Bedside

Reinaldo B. Oria, Joao O. Malva, Carlos Alexandre Netto

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443338427
• Subtopic: Neuroscience
• Index: Biological Sciences

Nutritional Neuroscience: From Bench to Bedside navigates the complex connections between nutrition and neurological health, from neurodevelopmental disorders influenced by early-life malnutrition to the neuroprotective effects of functional foods. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of the latest research in the field, spanning the mechanisms of taste and food processing in the brain, the impact of dietary interventions on inflammation and blood–brain barrier function, and the link between metabolic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. This book sits at the forefront of nutritional neuroscience, where cutting-edge research meets practical application, and equips its readers with a holistic understanding of how nutrition influences brain health at all ages. Bridging the gap between laboratory discoveries and clinical practice, this book offers a roadmap for future research and interventions in the f ield of nutritional neuroscience. - Highlights the influence of nutritional disorders on nervous system development - Describes sensory, cerebral, and endocrine function in the regulatory processes of eating behaviors - Covers the relationship between the central nervous system, enteric nervous system, and intestinal microbiota - Explains how intestinal microbiota influences the body's homeostasis and neuroinflammation

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Nutritional Neuroscience: From Bench to Bedside
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Neurodevelopmental disorders related to prenatal and early life exposure to malnutrition
• 2 Taste, olfactory, oral texture and visual processing of food reward in the brain
• 3 Maternal nutrition and epigenetic consequences for offspring cognition
• 4 Neurobiological programming of hedonic eating behavior
• 5 Neuroendocrine controls of appetite and satiety
• 6 Enteric nervous system and nutrition
• 7 Dietary modulation of gut microbiota and gut–brain axis
• 8 Adipose tissue, adipokines, and neuroinflammation
• 9 Diet, brain, and mental health
• 10 Functional foods and nutraceuticals as neuroprotectors
• 11 Neurosciences of sleep and nutrition
• 12 Food toxicants and brain health
• 13 Dietary interventions and brain health
• 14 Understanding nutrition beyond calories and vitamins—why plants are beneficial
• 15 Omega-3 fatty acids may boost heart health in people with Parkinson’s disease
• 16 Neuroprotection and antiaging effects of caloric restriction
• 17 Neurovascular dysfunction, stroke, and age-related cognitive impairment: the benefits of the Mediterranean diet
• 18 The impact of hypercaloric diet on inflammation and blood–brain barrier function
• 19 Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics in neurological disorders
• 20 Neuroendocrine and nutritional disorders
• 21 Meal patterns and cognitive health in adulthood
• 22 Dietary intervention, stress, and neuropsychiatric disorders
• 23 Neurogenesis impairment in hypercholesterolemia: a potential contributor to cognitive decline and depression
• 24 Energy metabolism and mitochondrial dynamics in neurodegenerative disorders: focus on hyperhomocysteinemia and neonatal hypoxia-ischemia
• 25 Apolipoprotein E, malnutrition, and neurodegenerative risk
• 26 Obesity and metabolic changes in neurodegenerative diseases
• 27 Alzheimer’s disease: diabetes of the brain
• 28 The role of diet in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
• 29 Parkinson’s disease and nutrition
• Index
• Back Cover