High-Fat Diet, Obesity, and Behavioral Health

Dear Colleagues,

High-fat diets and obesity have been reciprocally related to cognition and behavior. Both experimental and clinical studies from prenatal life and through the lifespan have investigated the effects of a high-fat diet/obesity on cognitive function and behavioral parameters. Conversely, cognitive and executive functions of an individual, as well as behavioral features can lead to increased or specific eating conditions and obesity. Cardiometabolic and mental health adverse outcomes are long-term implications of the inter-relations between a high-fat diet/obesity and cognitive/behavioral health.

Considering the success of the previous Special Issue entitled "High-Fat Diet, Obesity, and Behavioral Health", we are pleased to announce that we are launching a second Special Issue on this topic.

This Special Issue welcomes original research and review articles, with clinical, experimental and epidemiological content concerning the relations between a high-fat diet and/or obesity, and cognitive and behavioral health, with a particular focus on:

• The effects of prenatal food/nutrition alterations and/or obesity on brain function and behavior of the offspring;
• The effects of diet and obesity on cognitive and behavioral measures in adults and children;
• The relations of cognition-related conditions (e.g., intellectual disability, executive dysfunction in ADHD and other mental health conditions, cognitive decline, etc.) with nutrition and obesity;
• The relations between behavioral problems and disorders, including stress-related conditions with nutrition and obesity;
• Behavioral interventions for obesity;
• Nutritional interventions for cognitive and/or behavioral conditions;
• Mechanisms of action, pathways and molecules mediating the relations between diet, obesity, cognition and behavior, including methods such as proteomics, metabolomics, etc.;
• Genetics linking diet, obesity, cognition and behavior;
• Development of tools, methods and strategies targeting obesity through behavioral techniques.

Prof. Dr. Panagiota Pervanidou
Prof. Dr. Mary Yannakoulia
Prof. Dr. Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein
Guest Editors

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• obesity
• high-fat diet
• metabolism
• cognition
• behavior
• stress
• mental health