Nutritional psychiatry: the present state of the evidence
@article{Marx2017NutritionalPT, title={Nutritional psychiatry: the present state of the evidence}, author={Wolfgang Marx and Genevieve Moseley and Michael Berk and Felice Nellie Jacka}, journal={Proceedings of the Nutrition Society}, year={2017}, volume={76}, pages={427 - 436} }
Mental illness, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder, accounts for a significant proportion of global disability and poses a substantial social, economic and heath burden. Treatment is presently dominated by pharmacotherapy, such as antidepressants, and psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioural therapy; however, such treatments avert less than half of the disease burden, suggesting that additional strategies are needed to prevent and treat mental disorders. There are now…
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