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Nutritional Therapies, Exercise, and Diet for Mental Disorders

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Mental disorder is mainly due to any disturbance of emotion, i.e., disturbance of cognition, conation, and affect. Cognition is the study of any kind of mental operation by which knowledge is acquired. It includes learning, memory, language, perception, i.e., awareness of sensation, reasoning, execution of tasks, and so on. Cognitive behavioral therapy (in psychiatry) is directed to alter cognition in order to treat phobia, anxiety, and extreme sadness (depression). Conation, i.e., eager to take action, can sometimes lead to adverse reactions. Affect indicates the mental state at any particular moment associated with a particular idea. The hypothalamus and limbic system are mainly concerned with the genesis of emotion. Mental disorders may be due to mood, behavioral, biological, and psychological dysfunction. It may be associated with palpitation, sweating, fear, rage, nervousness, and lack of confidence. Mental disorders are caused by multifactorial pathogenesis, including genetics, oxidative damage, and neurotransmitter dysfunction. Nutritional therapies play an important role in reducing and even preventing the severity of a mental disorder.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Kaveri Chakrabarty

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Kaveri Chakrabarty

  3. Department of Physiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

    A. S. Chakrabarty

  4. Department of Physiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate, Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

    A. S. Chakrabarty

  5. Department of Physiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, New Delhi, India

    A. S. Chakrabarty

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Chakrabarty, K., Chakrabarty, A.S. (2019). Nutritional Therapies, Exercise, and Diet for Mental Disorders. In: Textbook of Nutrition in Health and Disease. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0962-9_10

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