Description
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.- 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
Table of Contents
Preface1. Vitamins and Minerals and in the context of reference values and requirementsRajkumar RajendramI. Alzheimer's Disease and Dementias2. Alpha-tocopherol for Alzheimer's diseaseAmal Kaddoumi3. Cognitive impairment and micronutrients: Vitamin B12, folate, and homocysteine and implications for dementiaGianluca Rizzo and Angela Marino4. Magnesium and Alzheimer's diseaseDènahin Hinnoutondji Toffa and Jimmy Li5. Copper, Oxidative Stress, Alzheimer's disease and DementiaRosanna Squitti, Mauro Rongioletti and Gianfranco Liguri6. Chromium and Alzheimer's diseaseSangeeta Pilkhwal Sah and Ansab AkhtarII. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis7. Riboflavin and lower motor neuron diseasesY. NadjarIII. Brain Injury8. Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic Acid) in Brain InjuryStefan W. Leichtle, Sulaiman Al Mohaish, Melissa Sandler, Vishal Yajnik, Dennis Rivet, Markos Kashiouris, Alpha Fowler and Gretchen M. Brophy9. Antioxidant vitamins in brain injury with or without antibioticsAnoop Kumar I10. Vitamin D and traumatic brain Injury Ajay Choudhary11. Zinc and traumatic brain injury: implications for dietary modulation Paul A. AdlardIV. Cerebral Palsy12. Cerebral palsy: Evaluating vitamin D levelsM. A. Bellomo-BrandaV. Dietary Neurotoxins13. Linking copper and neurotoxic activities Gesivaldo SantosVI. Epilepsy14. Epilepsy-derived neurodegeneration and vitamin EFrancesco Galli15. Selenium use in epilepsyHaitham S. Mohammed16. Reduced Vitamin C and minerals in epilepsyMohammad Safiqul Islam17. Thiamine, transporters and epilepsy Sunita Bijarnia-Mahay, Arushi Gahlot Saini and Harjit Singh MahayVII. Headaches and Migraines18. Riboflavin usage in pediatric migraine Gaku Yamanaka19. Vitamin B12, folate and migraine Ioannis Liampas, Vasileios Siokas, Christos Bakirtzis and Efthimios Dardiotis20. Vitamin D and migraineParisa GazeraniVIII. Multiple Sclerosis21. Iron, zinc and multiple sclerosis patients Jamilah Borjac and Alaa Matar22. Vitamin D3 supplementation and multiple sclerosisJoost Smolders and Jan DamoiseauxIX. Neuroinflammation23. Magnesium reducing neuroinflammation Renu Agarwal and Igor Iezhitsa24. Vitamin B12 as a neuroprotectant in neuroinflammation Roney S. Coimbra, Larissa Cassiano and Marina Oliveira25. Vitamin D (VD3) effects on neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disorders: focus on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseasesGlauce.Socorro de Barros Viana26. Vitamin c and neuroinflammation Amanda Marino, David Consoli and Fiona E. Harrison27. Vitamin A and all trans retinoic acid ( ATRA) on neuroinflammatory changes in the brainSaritha Nair, S. Priyanka and Indira M28. Fluoride Excess and Neuroinflammation Varun Kumar Sharma, Charu Tyagi, Dudha Namrata, Yugandhar Reddy and Lomas Kumar TomarX. Parkinson's Disease29. Vitamin D and Parkinson's disease Valeria Gonçalves, Fúlvio Scorza, A.C. G. Almeida and Carla A. Scorza30. Tocotrienols and Parkinson's disease: modelling in vivo and vitroTatsuya Matsura31. B vitamins, pyridoxal phosphate and Parkinsonism Adejoke Y. Onaolapo and Olakunle James Onaolapo32. Antioxidant vitamins in Parkinson's disease: Vitamins A, C and EWoon-Puay Koh and Ariel Fangting Ying33. Calcium- and Parkinson's diseasePayam Saadat and Kiarash Saleki34. 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 VXI. Peripheral Neuropathy36. Vitamin D levels and diabetic peripheral neuropathy Rizaldy Pinzon, Angela Angela, Vanessa Veronica, Febrina Eva Susanto and Andryawan Pradana37. 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-MesaXII. Prenatal Effects and Neurodevelopment38.
