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- Title
Are Essential Trace Elements Effective in Modulation of Mental Disorders? Update and Perspectives.
- Authors
Shayganfard, Mehran
- Abstract
The emergence of mental disorders is associated with several risk factors including genetic and environmental susceptibility. A group of nutrients serves an especially important role in a number of essential neurodevelopmental processes through brain areas promoting the high degree of brain metabolism during early life, although almost all nutrients are needed. These include macronutrients and micronutrients (e.g., iron, magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium). Numerous nutritional psychiatry trials have been performed to examine the correlation of many individual nutrients with mental health, such as essential trace elements. The increased accumulation or lack of such components will facilitate an alternative metabolic pathway that can lead to many diseases and conditions of neurodevelopment. Mental functions have biochemical bases, so the impairment of such neurochemical mechanisms due to lack of trace elements can have mental effects. In psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and autism, scientific studies demonstrate the putative role of trace element deficiency. Therefore, given the critical roles played by essential trace elements in the neurodevelopment and mental health, the effect of these elements' intake on the modulation of psychological functioning is reviewed.
- Subjects
MENTAL illness; TRACE elements; MENTAL depression; BRAIN metabolism; MENTAL health; NEURAL development
- Publication
Biological Trace Element Research, 2022, Vol 200, Issue 3, p1032
- ISSN
0163-4984
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12011-021-02733-y