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Nutrition Network

Advancing the bidirectional links between mental health and nutrition and to use this knowledge to identify novel neuropsychological and neuropharmacological intervention strategies. The Network builds new bridges across research disciplines and strengthens links to relevant stakeholders, including those involved in health and food policy. It comprises a group of leading European experts on the role of nutrition for mental health as well as eating disorders.

History

The network was founded in 2016 by a group of researchers working between the disciplines of nutrition and mental health, many of whom have collaborated in EC-funded projects and have been active recently within ECNP. Our initial idea was directed towards a new level of understanding of the nutrition-brain axis by bridging diverse disciplines, focusing on disease areas for which eating behaviour and body weight disturbance are having a neurobiological origin. Recently, the network has contributed to a better understanding of the interaction between brain and body in mental health prevention/promotion.

Through the activities of our network, we have fostered new collaborations between researchers, clinicians and the food industry, and we are working towards better defining the science underpinning nutrition and brain health.

Suzanne L. Dickson, Sweden, and Francesca Cirulli, Italy.
Francesca Cirulli

Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Italy

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Suzanne Dickson

University of Gothenburg
Sweden

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Member name Institution City Country
Roger Adan University Medical Centre Utrecht  Utrecht The Netherlands
Inmaculada Baeza University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
Eline van der Beek Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences Lutry Switzerland
John Cryan  University College Cork   Cork Republic of Ireland
Louise Dye University of Leeds Leeds United Kingdom
Tony Goldstone Imperial College London  London United Kingdom
Philip Gorwood   Paris Descartes University - Sainte Anne Hospital   Paris France  
Jaanus Harro University of Tartu Tartu Estonia 
Johannes Hebebrand University of Duisburg-Essen Essen Germany
Lora Heisler   University of Aberdeen   Aberdeen United Kingdom 
Suzanne Higgs University of Birmingham Birmingham United Kingdom 
Aniko Korosi University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands
Lars Libuda University Hospital Essen Essen Germany
Jochen Seitz RWTH Aachen University Aachen Germany
Sharmili Edwin Thanarajah University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt Germany
Sandrine Thuret Kings College London London United Kingdom
Odile Viltart INSERM IPNP Paris France
Shell members
Member name Institution City Country
José Manuel Fernández-Real Biomedical Research Institute of Girona Girona Spain 
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University   Aachen Germany
Silke Matura

Goethe University Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Germany
Emeritus members
Member name Institution City Country
Jan Buitelaar Radboud University Nijmegen   Nijmegen  The Netherlands  
Early Career Academy member
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Anna Krupa Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow Krakow Poland

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