Dr. Idiberto Jose Zotarelli Filho acted as the Main Guest Associate Editor, for Frontiers in Neuroscience

Handled the editorial work for the Research Topic they hosted on “Neurodegeneration and Behavioral Disorders under the light of neuro-nutrients and gut microbiota”.

The main responsibilities of Guest Associate Editor consist of organizing a Frontiers Research Topic, soliciting
contributions from their peers, and overseeing the review of submitted manuscripts, to ensure the rigor and fairness of the process.

Frontiers is the publisher of some of the largest and most-cited journals in their fields. By taking publishing entirely online, Frontiers drives innovation and develops new technologies to make peer review more efficient and
transparent, provides impact metrics for articles and researchers, merges open-access publishing with Loop, our
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children.

Our mission is to increase the reach and impact of research articles and their authors. Frontiers has received the ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing in 2014. For more information, visit: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/48264/neurodegeneration-and-behavioral-disorders-under-the-light-of-neuro-nutrients-and-gut-microbiota

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Neurodegeneration and Behavioral Disorders under the light of neuro-nutrients and gut microbiota

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, with a high and constant demand for inputs. Adequate nutrition and balanced gut microbiota are essential for the complete functioning of the brain, not only due to the energy supply, mainly from carbohydrates, but also due to the adequate supply of other macronutrients and micronutrients for the synthesis of neurotransmitters and protein components.

The present topic presents a wider scope of approach, involving several sub-themes, from basic science, pathological mechanisms, diagnostics and therapeutics (pre-clinical trials: in vitro and in vivo and clinical studies on the main approaches to neurodegeneration and behavioral disorders under the light of neuro-nutrients and gut microbiota. This topic will emphasize the main nutrients and the axis with the intestinal microbiota panel that can neuromodulate genes in mental illness , seeking to present key biomarkers such as microRNAs and exosomes, either up or down regulated, that are closely related to these diseases.

This topic aims to develop a collection of articles from both pre-clinical and clinical studies that present the main genetic, molecular and cellular advances through nutrological and gut microbiota treatment for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and mental illnesses, seeking to highlight the contributions of microRNAs and exosomes.

This topic aims to recruit articles whose results can establish scientific evidence of the important action of nutrients and the gut microbiota-brain axis in the prevention and/or treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, mental illnesses, and mental health trying to highlight the influences of microRNAs and exosomes in this process.

Topic Editor: Dr. Idiberto Jose Zotarelli-Filho