Join Alice Benskin (Senior nutrition scientist and trainee psychologist specialising in mental health and complex trauma) as she talks about the emerging field of Nutritional Psychiatry, which is centred around the role of diet in neurological diseases, mental health conditions and learning spectrum disorders. It will review current evidence and discuss evidence-based strategies with regards to prevention and management of these conditions.
Alice is a Senior Nutritionist and Nutrition Education Lead for Nutritank, and a member of the World Health Organisation’s “Fides” programme, representing as a nutrition scientist in the fight against nutrition and health misinformation online. Alice have a decade of experience working in nutrition research, education and the food industry, including at University of Oxford. I regularly teach doctors, nurses and other health professionals regarding the role of nutrition for supporting mental wellbeing, with a key focus on the impact of complex trauma on health.
Key Learning outcomes from this course are
- Dietary patterns and their correlation with incidences of many neurological disorders,
- Mental health conditions and learning spectrum disorders understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms related to these conditions
- How these can be addressed through nutrition
