Bioactive Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements in Neurological and Brain Disease

Table of Contents

Section 1: Role of Complementary and alternative supplements: Overview of mechanisms of action and neurological targets

Section 2: Role of diets, complementary, and alternative supplements in prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

Section 3: Mood and cognition by nutraceutical interventions

Section 4: Drug and foods and nutraceutical interactions during treatment of neurodegenerative diseases: Toxicities

Section 5: Mechanisms of action of nutraceuticals and dietary supplements in neurological disease therapy: Autoimmunity and antioxidant actions

Section 6: Hypertension and Stroke

Section 7: Seizures, epilepsy, Parkinson disease

Authors

Watson, Ronald Ross Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson's career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models. Preedy, Victor R. Dr. Preedy is a senior member of King's College London and Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. Professor Preedy has longstanding academic interests in substance misuse especially in relation to health and well-being. In his career Professor Preedy was Reader at the Addictive Behaviour Centre at The University of Roehampton, and also Reader at the School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London; UCL). Professor Preedy is an extremely experienced book editor, having edited influential works including but not limited to The Handbook of Alcohol Related Pathology, The Neuropathology of Drug Addictions and Substance Misuse, The Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologies, The Neuroscience of Cocaine, and upcoming titles The Neuroscience of Alcohol, The Neuroscience of Nicotine, and more (all Elsevier).