The Role of Nutrients in Child Neurodevelopment
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2024 | Viewed by 60
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatrics; neonatology; prematurity; neonatal feeding and nutrition; peptides and hormones involved in neonatal metabolism; neonatal infections; neurodevelopment; insulin resistance; metabolism; glucose metabolism; nutrition; lipid metabolism; metabolic diseases; fat; abdominal obesity
Interests: nutrition; maternal; pregnancy; childhood; adiposity; environmental health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is emerging literature pointing towards the importance of nutritious diet for optimizing child neurodevelopment, even from the time of pregnancy. Optimal nutrition during pregnancy has a significant role in fetal brain development and has been associated with favorable birth outcomes and child growth. Brain development continues until adulthood, and good nutrition is vital throughout childhood and adolescence to promote healthy neurodevelopment. Even so, brain development is a complex process, and the influence of macronutrients and micronutrients on child neurodevelopment is not fully understood. Therefore, the role of nutrition in preventing adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, mitigating the effect of neurotoxicants, and supporting infant brain development is an area to be further explored.
The Special Issue will include manuscripts that focus on the role of nutrition in fetal and child neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Specifically, the importance of nutrition in fetal programming, disease prevention, therapeutic potential, and the promotion of improved neurodevelopmental outcomes. This Special Issue welcomes original research articles from epidemiological studies and review articles. The content may be useful for helping researchers to further advance research, as well as for nutritionists and clinical practitioners in research translation.
Dr. Tania Siahanidou
Dr. Katherine Svensson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nutrition
- neurodevelopment
- child
- prenatal nutrition
- fetal development
- malnutrition
- health promotion
- mitigation
