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Cognitive Decline
Cognitive decline refers to a measurable reduction in one or more cognitive abilities — such as memory, attention, executive function, language, learning, judgment, and…
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Metabolic Disorders
Metabolic disorders are a broad group of conditions that disrupt the normal biochemical processes by which the body converts food into energy, builds and…
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Mood disorders (also called affective disorders) are a category of psychiatric conditions characterized by marked, sustained disruptions in emotional state — either severe lows…
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A ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, very low-carbohydrate, moderate-protein dietary approach designed to induce nutritional ketosis — a metabolic state in which the…
Read termMetabolic Psychiatry
Metabolic Psychiatry is an emerging subspecialty of psychiatry that examines the role of metabolic dysfunction — including impairments in mitochondrial function, insulin signaling, inflammation,…
Read termBinge eating disorder (BED)
Binge eating disorder (BED) is a psychiatric eating disorder marked by recurrent episodes of eating an unusually large amount of food in a discrete…
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