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Vitamins and Minerals in Neurological Disorders

  • 1st Edition - June 6, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Colin R. Martin, Vinood B. Patel, Victor R. Preedy
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Nutrition**Vitamins and Minerals in Neurological Disorders offers readers a comprehensive reference addressing their relationship t… Read more

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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Nutrition**

Vitamins and Minerals in Neurological Disorders offers readers a comprehensive reference addressing their relationship to brain health in a wide variety of neurological diseases. Examining various compounds, this broad coverage allows readers to learn about the role nutrient deficiency plays in the pathology of many conditions, as well as their potential in treatment. The book covers diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, and MS, along with severe neurological conditions like brain injury, stroke, headache and migraine. This volume provides a platform for research on vitamins, minerals and future investigations of these compounds.

Key features

  • Summarizes vitamin and mineral research for a variety of neurological conditions
  • Contains chapter abstracts, key facts, a dictionary and a summary
  • Covers nutraceutical and botanical use in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, and more
  • Includes conditions like migraine, headache, stroke and brain injury

Readership

Researchers in neuroscience and the biomedical sciences, neurologists, dietitians

Table of contents

Preface

1. Vitamins and Minerals and in the context of reference values and requirements
Rajkumar Rajendram

I. Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementias

2. Alpha-tocopherol for Alzheimer’s disease
Amal Kaddoumi

3. Cognitive impairment and micronutrients: Vitamin B12, folate, and homocysteine and implications for dementia
Gianluca Rizzo and Angela Marino

4. Magnesium and Alzheimer's disease
Dènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa and Jimmy Li

5. Copper, Oxidative Stress, Alzheimer's disease and Dementia
Rosanna Squitti, Mauro Rongioletti and Gianfranco Liguri

6. Chromium and Alzheimer's disease
Sangeeta Pilkhwal Sah and Ansab Akhtar

II. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

7. Riboflavin and lower motor neuron diseases
Y. Nadjar

III. Brain Injury

8. Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic Acid) in Brain Injury
Stefan W. Leichtle, Sulaiman Al Mohaish, Melissa Sandler, Vishal Yajnik, Dennis Rivet, Markos Kashiouris, Alpha Fowler and Gretchen M. Brophy

9. Antioxidant vitamins in brain injury with or without antibiotics
Anoop Kumar I

10. Vitamin D and traumatic brain Injury
Ajay Choudhary

11. Zinc and traumatic brain injury: implications for dietary modulation
Paul A. Adlard

IV. Cerebral Palsy

12. Cerebral palsy: Evaluating vitamin D levels
M. A. Bellomo-Branda

V. Dietary Neurotoxins

13. Linking copper and neurotoxic activities
Gesivaldo Santos

VI. Epilepsy

14. Epilepsy-derived neurodegeneration and vitamin E
Francesco Galli

15. Selenium use in epilepsy
Haitham S. Mohammed

16. Reduced Vitamin C and minerals in epilepsy
Mohammad Safiqul Islam

17. Thiamine, transporters and epilepsy
Sunita Bijarnia-Mahay, Arushi Gahlot Saini and Harjit Singh Mahay

VII. Headaches and Migraines

18. Riboflavin usage in pediatric migraine
Gaku Yamanaka

19. Vitamin B12, folate and migraine
Ioannis Liampas, Vasileios Siokas, Christos Bakirtzis and Efthimios Dardiotis

20. Vitamin D and migraine
Parisa Gazerani

VIII. Multiple Sclerosis

21. Iron, zinc and multiple sclerosis patients
Jamilah Borjac and Alaa Matar

22. Vitamin D3 supplementation and multiple sclerosis
Joost Smolders and Jan Damoiseaux

IX. Neuroinflammation

23. Magnesium reducing neuroinflammation
Renu Agarwal and Igor Iezhitsa

24. Vitamin B12 as a neuroprotectant in neuroinflammation
Roney S. Coimbra, Larissa Cassiano and Marina Oliveira

25. Vitamin D (VD3) effects on neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disorders: focus on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Glauce.Socorro de Barros Viana

26. Vitamin c and neuroinflammation
Amanda Marino, David Consoli and Fiona E. Harrison

27. Vitamin A and all trans retinoic acid ( ATRA) on neuroinflammatory changes in the brain
Saritha Nair, S. Priyanka and Indira M

28. Fluoride Excess and Neuroinflammation
Varun Kumar Sharma, Charu Tyagi, Dudha Namrata, Yugandhar Reddy and Lomas Kumar Tomar

X. Parkinson’s Disease

29. Vitamin D and Parkinson's disease
Valeria Gonçalves, Fúlvio Scorza, A.C. G. Almeida and Carla A. Scorza

30. Tocotrienols and Parkinson's disease: modelling in vivo and vitro
Tatsuya Matsura

31. B vitamins, pyridoxal phosphate and Parkinsonism
Adejoke Y. Onaolapo and Olakunle James Onaolapo

32. Antioxidant vitamins in Parkinson’s disease: Vitamins A, C and E
Woon-Puay Koh and Ariel Fangting Ying

33. Calcium- and Parkinson’s disease
Payam Saadat and Kiarash Saleki

34. Micronutrient levels in Parkinson's Disease
H. Afridi Sr.

35. Genes and dietary metals in Parkinson disease
Shiek SS.J Ahmed, Jency Roshni, Mahema S. and Janakiraman V

XI. Peripheral Neuropathy

36. Vitamin D levels and diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Rizaldy Pinzon, Angela Angela, Vanessa Veronica, Febrina Eva Susanto and Andryawan Pradana

37. B Vitamins in the nervous system: a focus on peripheral neuropathy
Ana María Páez-Hurtado, Maria Camila Cortes-Albornoz, Diego Alejandro Rodríguez-Gomez, Carlos Calderón-Ospina and Mauricio O. Nava-Mesa

XII. Prenatal Effects and Neurodevelopment

38. B-vitamins, deficiencies and maternal over supplementation on neurodevelopment: an updated narrative
McCoy Clementson, Jesse Jauhal and Nafisa M. Jadavji

39. Trace elements in neurodevelopment: an updated narrative
Anatoly Skalny, Lyubov Chernova and Anastasia Skalnaya

40. Gestational Folic Acid in Neuronal Development of the Hypothalamus
G. H. Anderson

XIII. Stroke

41. Vitamin B12, hyperhomocysteinaemia and stroke
J. David Spence

42. Dietary sodium and stroke: A new narrative
Ahmad Jayedi and Sakineh Shab-bidar

43. Dietary calcium and stroke
Ka Kahe

44. Resources
Rajkumar Rajendram

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

Colin R. Martin

Editor
Colin R. Martin RN, BSc, MSc, PhD, MBA, YCAP, FHEA, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, C.Sci is Professor of Clinical Psychobiology and Applied Psychoneuroimmunology and Clinical Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Suffolk, UK. He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. He also trained in analytical biochemistry, this aspect reflecting the psychobiological focus of much of his research within mental health. He has published or has in press well over 300 research papers and book chapters. He is a keen book author and editor having written and/or edited more than 50 books. These outputs include the prophetic insight into the treatment of neurological disease, Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition (2011), Nanomedicine and the Nervous System (2012), Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants in Neurological Disease (2020), Zika Virus Impact, Diagnosis, Control and Models (2021), Factors Affecting Neurodevelopment: Genetics, Neurology, Behavior and Diet (2021), Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury (2022), The Neurobiology, Physiology, and Psychology of Pain (2022) and The Handbook of Lifespan Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Childhood, Adolescence, Pregnancy, Adulthood, and Aging (2023). Professor Martin is particularly interested in all aspects of the relationship between underlying physiological substrates and behavior, particularly in how these relationships manifest in both acute and chronic psychiatric disorder. He has published original research germane to significant mental health disorders including the areas of schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, alcohol and drug dependency, high secure forensic mental health and personality disorder. He has a keen interest in the impact of postviral illness and is actively involved in clinical research post-Covid pandemic and in particular, the impact of Long Covid on psychological, neurological, physiological and social functioning. He is involved in collaborative International research with many European and Non-European countries.
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Professor of Perinatal Wellbeing, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK

Vinood B. Patel

Editor

Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC, is Professor in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. In 2014 Dr Patel was elected as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College London in 1997. His postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to mitochondrial ribosomes, where he developed novel techniques to characterize their biophysical properties. Research is being undertaken to study the role of nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of disease. Other areas of interest are identifying new biomarkers that can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of disease and understanding mitochondrial oxidative stress. Dr Patel is a nationally and internationally recognized researcher and has several edited biomedical books related to health and well being These books include Ancient and traditional foods, plants and herbs and spices in human health; coffee in health and disease prevention, Nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions: From Biology to Public Health, tea in health and disease prevention.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Clinical Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences University of Westminster, London, UK

Victor R. Preedy

Editor

Victor R. Preedy, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRCPath, FRSC, FRSM, is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King’s College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King’s College London. He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Suffolk and served as the long‑term Director of the Genomics Centre at King’s College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology and later obtained his PhD from the University of London. He subsequently received Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists and later earned his second doctorate (DSc) in recognition of his contributions to protein metabolism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, the Royal Society for Public Health, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Preedy has conducted research while affiliated with Imperial College London, the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London), and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated widely with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, the USA, and Germany. His longstanding academic interests include health and well‑being. He has published more than 750 works, including peer‑reviewed research articles, abstracts, symposium presentations, reviews, and edited books.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, UK; Visiting Professor, University of Hull, UK

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