Editor’s introduction: Special series on nutrition and mental health

Since patients are becoming more aware of complementary and alternative medicines, Liem (2019) finds it important to investigate psychologists’ attitudes towards this type of non-standard medical care. This present study specifically assessed and compared Australian and Indonesian psychologists’ attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicines. An online survey was sent to Indonesian psychologists (247 completed the […]

Introduction: What Is Nutritional Psychology? Nutritional psychology explores the two-way relationship between nutrition and psychological functioning. While evidence consistently shows that diet impacts mental health and cognitive performance, this connection has not yet been fully systematized or officially recognized as a formal subfield of psychology. The recent paper by Stroebele-Benschop et al. (2025) proposes a […]