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There is not much to mediate [yet] when it comes to diet and depression

Molecular Psychiatry volume 27, pages 776–777 (2022)Cite this article

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Marx et al. [1] wrote a narrative review on the biological mechanisms of action that could underlie or mediate the association between diet and depression. The review opens with the statement that “the field of nutritional psychiatry has generated observational and efficacy data supporting a role for healthy dietary patterns in depression onset and symptom management”. The best available evidence does not substantiate this statement.

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This project was funded through continued support by Leiden University. FT-O is supported by the German Research Foundation, grant DFG Research Unit FOR2107.

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  1. Clinical Psychology Department, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    M. L. Molendijk & W. van der Does

  2. Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    M. L. Molendijk

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    P. Molero

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    F. Thomas-Odenthal

  5. Centre for Mind, Brain, and Behaviour, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    F. Thomas-Odenthal

  6. Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Center LUBEC, Leiden, The Netherlands

    W. van der Does

  7. Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    W. van der Does

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Molendijk, M.L., Molero, P., Thomas-Odenthal, F. et al. There is not much to mediate [yet] when it comes to diet and depression. Mol Psychiatry 27, 776–777 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01382-w

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