The relationship between high body weight and mental health has been studied for several
decades. Improvements in the quality of epidemiological, mechanistic and psychological …

Background/objectives Obesity has been associated with elevated risk of depression. If this
association is causal, the increasing obesity prevalence might lead to worsening population …

Growing evidence suggests that relative carbohydrate intake affects depression; however,
the association between carbohydrates and depression remains controversial. To test this …

Children with high body mass index (BMI) are at heightened risk of developing health issues
in adulthood, yet the causality between childhood BMI and adult psychiatric disorders …

Context Observational studies indicated obesity and glutamatergic dysfunction as potential
risk factors of depression, and reported disturbance of glutamine metabolism in obese state …

Background Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) are at higher risk for obesity.
In turn, weight gain is a predisposing factor for depression. Although clinical data are sparse …

Background About every fourth patient with major depressive disorder (MDD) shows
evidence of systemic inflammation. Previous studies have shown inflammation-depression …

Background Examine the onset of a clinical diagnosis of mood (major depression, dysthymia
and bipolar disorder)-and anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia without panic …

Food addiction (FA) has been associated with binge eating disorder (BED) and obesity at
varying levels of severity and treatment outcomes. Despite much debate and scientific …

Depression shows a metabolomic signature overlapping with that of cardiometabolic
conditions. Whether this signature is linked to specific depression profiles remains …