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Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 9/2017

01-09-2017 | Editorial

Editorial focused issue ‘The role of nutrition in child and adolescent onset mental disorders’

Authors: Nanda Lambregts-Rommelse, Johannes Hebebrand

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 9/2017

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Childhood neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders are known to be complex conditions of multifactorial aetiology, involving both genetic and environmental determinants. There is a rapidly growing awareness that mental symptoms and psychiatric disorders are linked to nutrition. This focused issue of European Child+Adolescent Psychiatry will present a state-of-the-art overview of the topic of nutrition and child and adolescent psychiatric disorders, with the aim of moving this highly promising field forward by formulating a research agenda and to inform clinicians regarding the currently available therapeutic and preventive options. …
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Metadata
Title
Editorial focused issue ‘The role of nutrition in child and adolescent onset mental disorders’
Authors
Nanda Lambregts-Rommelse
Johannes Hebebrand
Publication date
01-09-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 9/2017
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1041-8

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