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Depression and Diet - Research

Essential fatty acids and their metabolites could function as endogenous HMG-CoA reductase and ACE enzyme inhibitors, anti-arrhythmic, anti-hypertensive, anti-atherosclerotic, anti-inflammatory, cytoprotective, and cardioprotective molecules
Sanchez-Villegas et al 2007 - Long chain omega-3 fatty acids intake, fish consumption and mental disorders in the SUN cohort study
House 2007 - Nurturing the brain nutritionally and emotionally from before conception to late adolescence
Freeman et al. 2006 - Omega-3 fatty acids: evidence basis for treatment and future research in psychiatry
Sublette et al 2006 - Omega-3 PUFA status as a predictor of future suicide risk.
Feeding Minds: The impact of food on mental health - Mental Health Foundation
DeMar et al 2006 - One generation of n-3 PUFA deprivation increases depression and aggression test scores in rats
Bushara 2005 - Neurologic presentation of celiac disease.
Murphy et al 2004 - The antidepressant properties of the ketogenic diet
Hallahan and Garland 2004 - Essential fatty acids and their role in the treatment of impulsivity disorders.
Evans et al 2004 - Regulation of metabolic rate and substrate utilization by zinc deficiency.
Peet 2004 - International variations in schizophrenia outcome and depression prevalence in relation to national diet
Noaghiul and Hibbeln - 2003 - Cross-national comparisons of seafood consumption and rates of bipolar disorders
Cunnane & Crawford - 2003 - Survival of the fattest: fat babies were the key to evolution of the large human brain.
Simopoulos - 2002 - Omega-3 fatty acids in inflammation and autoimmune diseases.
Hibbeln 2002 - Seafood consumption, DHA in mothers' milk and prevalence of post-partum depression across countries
Brown et al 2000 - Further evidence of relation between prenatal famine and major affective disorder
Rudin 1982 - The dominant diseases of modernized societies as omega-3 essential fatty acid deficiency syndrome: substrate beriberi

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