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Meetings
During the year, the Nutrition Network organises meetings for its members (also at the annual ECNP Congress).

• ECNP educational workshop on Nutritional Psychiatry
  19 October 2022, Vienna, Austria
  This workshop will bring together the most knowledgeable experts in the field to have a “state of the art” view of regarding the links between diet and mental and brain health.
  Check the programme and register here.

BRAINFOOD cluster
Members of the Nutrition Network have contributed to the creation of the BRAINFOOD cluster recognised by the project EBRA (European Brain Research Agenda).

• What is EBRA?
• What is an EBRA scientific cluster?
  
• The BRAINFOOD cluster
  In 2021 an expert meeting was held with stakeholders. Based on this meeting a position paper was written which was recently published: Towards new nutritional policies for brain health: a research perspective on future actions
• BRAINFOOD cluster event
  On 22 September 2022 a policy meeting will be held in Brussels as final activity of the BRAINFOOD cluster. The most important message to policy is that due to the lack of return of investment as it is very difficult to protect patents on the health benefit of nutrition), it is the responsibility of politicians to invest in the enormous potential of nutrition to impact on brain health.

Research projects

• Gut-brain-axis: targets for improvement of cognition in the elderly
  (SMARTAGE - GA 859890)
  EU (H2020): 2020-2024
  WP Leader: José Manuel Fernández-Real
• Integrated analysis of the interactions between glycemia and microbiota composition, and their impact on brain iron deposition and cognition in obese subjects
  (IRONMET+CGM - PI18/01022)
  ISCIII. PI. 2019-2023
  WP Leader José Manuel Fernández-Real
• MiGBAN (Microbiome Gut-Brain interaction in Anorexia Nervosa)

Recommended publications

Authors	Year	Title	Journal and link to the article
Turck et al.	2022	Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars	EFSA Journal
Keller et al.	2022	The effects of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) administration on the microbiome-gut-brain axis in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (the MiGBAN study): study protocol for a longitudinal, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial	Trials
Gröbner et al.	2022	The effects of probiotics administration on the gut microbiome in adolescents with anorexia nervosa-A study protocol for a longitudinal, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial	European Eating Disorders Review
Mayneris-Perxachs et al.	2022	Microbiota alterations in proline metabolism impact depression	Cell Metabolism
Föcker et al.	2021	Vitamin D Level Trajectories of Adolescent Patients with Anorexia nervosa at Inpatient Admission, during Treatment, and at One Year Follow Up: Association with Depressive Symptoms	Nutrients
Arnoriaga-Rodríguez et al.	2021	Obesity-associated deficits in inhibitory control are phenocopied to mice through gut microbiota changes in one-carbon and aromatic amino acids metabolic pathways	Gut
Arnoriaga-Rodríguez et al.	2020	Obesity Impairs Short-Term and Working Memory through Gut Microbial Metabolism of Aromatic Amino Acids	Cell Metabolism
Adan et al.	2019	Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat	European Neuropsychopharmacology
Peris-Sampedro et al.	2019	Impact of Free-Choice Diets High in Fat and Different Sugars on Metabolic Outcome and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Rats	Obesity
Mulders et al.	2018	Microbiota in obesity: interactions with enteroendocrine, immune and central nervous systems.	Obesity Reviews
Hebebrand et al.	2018	The role of genetic variation of human metabolism for BMI, mental traits and mental disorders.	Molecular Metabolism
Huckins et al.	2018	Investigation of common, low-frequency and rare genome-wide variation in anorexia nervosa.	Molecular Psychiatry

Other symposia and events

• 4^th International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Symposium on ‘Nutrition for the Ageing Brain’
  25-26 August 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

The symposium took place in Lisbon, Portugal and focused on the following themes:
- Latest evidence in molecular mechanisms and epidemiological aspects
- The Gut-Brain Axis: Evidence of targeting the gut for maintaining brain health
- Sustainable Food Systems

• Symposium at the 5^th European Congress on Obesity
  May 2018, Vienna, Austria

 

 

 

 

Targeted Network Meetings

• 'Nutrition for mental health across the lifespan' (October 2018, after the 31^st ECNP Congress, Barcelona, Spain).