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Is diet protective in traumatic brain injury?

Kitagishi and Matsuda review the signaling pathways involved in traumatic encephalopathy and the effect of dietary supplements on these mechanisms, especially the role of the PI3K/AKT/PTEN pathway in neuroprotection and therapy.

Diet with nuts lowers depression risk

Patients with high cardiovascular disease risk and type 2 diabetes on a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts have lower risk of depression than those on a low-fat diet, suggesting nuts have a beneficial effect on mental health in this population.

The Indian gut microbiome

This timely review discusses the status of gut microbiome studies in the Indian population and highlights the unique opportunities and challenges for such research.

National dementia plans

The best way to manage dementia at a country level is by developing national plans; Marc Wortmann lists the ten common elements in current plans that can be used as a learning experience.

Epigenetic differences in the overweight and diabetic

Large, genome-wide differences exist in histone methylation levels in overweight and diabetic individuals. These large-scale changes might reflect global reprogramming of gene expression patterns in adipocytes associated to obesity.