Verena Ly, Marco Bottelier, Pieter J Hoekstra, Alejandro Arias Vasquez, Jan K Buitelaar, Nanda N Rommelse
Nutrition plays an important role in neurodevelopment. This insight has led to increasing research into the efficacy of nutrition-related interventions for treating neurodevelopmental disorders. This review discusses an elimination diet as a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder, with a focus on the efficacy of the food additives exclusion diet, gluten-free/casein-free diet and oligoantigenic diet. Furthermore, we discuss the potential mechanisms of elimination diets' effects in these neurodevelopmental disorders...
September 2017: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry