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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
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Issue 9/2017
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Excerpt
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. …