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  Mental Health (1 ECTS)

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  • Dear students!

    Welcome to the 5-day intensive course “Mental health”. The course is intended for students, residents, undergraduates and specialist doctors of various profiles. This course will help you determine how much you understand about how nutrition affects a person’s mental health.
    The program provides both the development of theoretical knowledge and the development of practical skills in the use of nutritional support for mental health (for mental illness, burnout, autism).

    The Overall goal of the course is to train residents/interns in the use of nutritional support for mental health.
    

    Learning Goals:

    After successful completion of the course students will be able to:
    

    1. show understanding of the eating choices in menthal disorders
       
    2. provide reasoning of general eating choices in menthal health disorders
       
    3. assess macronutrients and micronutrients’ intake requirements in menthal health disorders
       
    4. conduct a study of food choices and behavior of elderly
       
    5. create a diet plan in mental health disorders to maintain health or improve a health condition
       

    This course includes 1 ECTS, the number of hours is 25 hours.
    The course includes 1 day of attending a class and 4 days of independent study. After finishing, you need to answer questions to receive feedback
    

  • Syllabus File
  • Forum for Announcements and Questions

    Purpose: general communication channel for the whole course

    Task: Please use this Forum to ask questions about the course and contribute your own thoughts and observations. The teachers will provide advice and Feedback.

    
    

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  Lesson 1: Mental illnesses and nutritional changes. Nutrition and the brain. The role of nutrition in supporting mental health

  • 2 units
    

    
    

    Learning Objectives: 

    • Identify what leads to burnout

    •  Understand how nutrition affects burnout

    •  Determine solutions to cope with emotional burnout

    
    Dear student!
    Watch next videos:
    
    

    
    

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  • Lesson 1: Homework 1 Assignment

    Study the norms of human mental health.
    

    Explore research on the impact of nutrition on mental health. You can only select 1-2 studies
    

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    Deadline to upload: xx
    

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  Lesson 2

  • 2 units
    

    
    Learning Objectives: 

    • Identify what leads to burnout

    • Understand how nutrition affects burnout

    • Determine solutions to cope with emotional burnout

    
    

    Dear student!
    Watch next 2 videos:

    
    

    Role of Nutrtion in Mental Health (2 min) 

     

    https://vc-training.fh-joanneum.at/moodle/course/modedit.php?update=8690&return=0&sr=0
    
    
    Nutrition and Mental Health - The Scientific Evidence (Prof. Lorraine Brennan) (40 min) 

     
    

    
    

    
    

  • Lesson 2: Homework 2 Assignment

    Explore research on emotional outbursts.

    https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=97474986&lang=ru&site=ehost-live

    Write and submit an essay about burnout at work (no more than 10 lines)

    Deadline to upload: xx

    
    

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  Lesson 3: Nutritional support for mental illness. Depression and nutrition

  • 2 units

    
    Learning Objectives: 

    
    

    • Teach nutritional support skills for mental illness

    •  Determine the role of nutrition in depression

    Dear student ! 
    Watch next video (43 min) (1 unit) "Nutrition and Diet for depression and Depressive symptoms"

     

     
    

    
    

  • Lesson 3: Homework 3

    
    

    Read research on the role of nutrition in depression. You can read 1-2 articles.

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     Deadline: xx

    
    

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  Lesson 4: Topic-Stress. Mechanisms of occurrence. Nutritional support.

  • 2 units

    
    

    Learning Objectives: 

    
    

    • Disassemble the mechanism of stress development.
    • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
    • The main stress hormones are cortisol, circadian rhythms under normal conditions and during stress.
    • Nutrition program, daily routine during stress.
    • Nutritional support.

    Watch the folloving video: Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis.What is the role of HPA axis in stress? (7 min)

    
     

     
    

    
    

    Whatch video on youtube: Mechanism of stress (22 min)

     

     
    

    Whatch video: Managing of stress (19 min)

     

     
    

    
    

  • Lesson 4: Homework 4 Assignment

    Homework 4 (2 units = 90 min)

    
    

    Deadline: xx

    
    

    a) Write a short essay about stress (role of HPA axis in stress, pathogenesis of stress, how we can reduce stress) 4-5 sentences

    
    

    b) Give example of healthy plate, as example you can use model which given on following  material
    

    • Write main aspects of Building a Healthy and Balanced Diet

    https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/.

    • Which tips can you suggest for your patient , according with material Tips to Help Control Stress - which are given bellow

    https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/stress-and-health/

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  Lesson 5: Neuroinflamaition as pathogenesis of mental disorders.

  • 2 units

    
    

    Learning Objectives: 
    

    • Neuroinflamation development mechanism .
    • Students to be able to determine nutritional support 

    Whatch next video: 
    Why psychiatric symptoms are not always psychological: the impact of inflammation on mental health (60 min)

    
    

    
    

  • Lesson 5: Homework 5 Assignment

    Homework 5 (10 min)

    
    

    • Which main points is the Professor saying about neuroinflammation (video)?
    • Neuroinflammation and psychiatric illness: Which connection between neuroinflamation and menthal disorders did you find? 

    
    

    Please write an essay (3-6 sentences, 10 min)

    
    

    Deadline: XX

  • Lesson 5: Homework 6 Assignment

    Homework 6 (2 units = 90 min)
    

    
    

    Deadline to upload: xx

    
    Dear students please read the article on Pubmed: 

    The role of neuroinflammation on pathogenesis of affective disorders. This review focuses on the possible impact of dysregulated cytokine networks which may cause pathogenesis of affective disorders such as depression and anxiety.
    Write main points of pathogenesis.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7056473/#:~:text=PATHOGENESIS%20OF%20NEUROINFLAMMATION%20IN%20PSYCHIATRIC%20DISORDERS&text=Cells%20of%20the%20immune%20system,through%20binding%20to%20glucocorticoid%20receptors.
    
    

    Read next article- Healthy lifestyles and wellbeing reduce neuroinflammation and prevent neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Which tips should follow patinets for avoiding neuroinflamation?
    Which tips should follow patinets for avoiding neuroinflamation?
    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1092537/full

    
    

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  Lesson 6: Autism and nutritional support

  • 2 units

    
    Learning Objectives: 
    

    • Pathogenesis of autism.
    • Role of nutritional support in autism

    
    

    Whatch next video - Investigating of environmental etiology of ACD (56 min)

    
    

  • Lesson 6: Autism and nutritional support Assignment

    Read next article
    

    Nutrition in autism spectrum disorders: A review of evidences for an emerging central role in aetiology, expression, and management (20 min)

    https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/medsci.2018.2.122?viewType=HTML

    
    

    Please write short essay - 3-5 sentences and submit it in this assignement
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

  • Lesson 6: Discussion 1: Reasons leading to Autism Forum

    Which reasons can lead to Autism? 

    Purpose: To discuss your knowledge

    Task: Open a new Discussion topic and shortly describe the reasons leading to Autism in your own words. 

    Response: reply to postings that present similar experience and knowledge like yours, ask questions or discuss very different approaches.

    Deadline: xxxxx

    Time needed: 15-20 min

    Grading points: Open one discussion topic and write at least 2 replies to your colleagues
    

  • Lesson 6: Homework 7: Autism and nutritional support Assignment

    Homework (2 unit =90 min) 
    

    Deadline: xx
    
    Read
    material The association of UK dietitians 
    -Autism and diet https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/autism-diet.html#:~:text=Eating%20regular%20meals%20containing%20fibre,help%20to%20increase%20fibre%20intake.
    Please give
    answer the following questions
    1)Doses of
    vitamin D3 among  all babies under one year of age.
    2)Doses of
    vitamin D3  among adults and children
    aged one year and older
    3)People following a vegan diet which
    type and which doses of suplements should take 
    4) For preventing Autism how many Folic
    acid  should be taken by  women who are pregnant, trying to
    conceive or could become pregnant

    
    

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  Exam

  • 2 units

    Dear students! After completing the course, you will have to pass an oral exam.
    The topics for which you should prepare are given below.

    List of questions for the oral exam
    1. What is the role of nutrition in mental health?
    2. How does nutrition affect a person’s mental health?
    3. The role of nutrition in the prevention of mental illness
    4. What mental health standards do you know?
    5. Define human emotional burnout
    6. How nutrition affects burnout
    7. What are the ways to combat burnout with the help of balanced nutrition?
    8. What skills do you know about nutritionally supporting the body during mental illness?
    9. What is the role of nutrition in depression?
    10. How does the diet for depression differ from a normal person’s condition? 11.Nutrition during stress.
    12.Nutraceutical support for stress.
    13. Mechanism of stress development.
    14.Modification of lifestyle under stress.
    15. Neuroinflammation as the pathogenesis of mental diseases.
    16.Nutraceutical support for neuroinflammation
    17. Autism, the main links of pathogenesis.
    18.Nutraceutical support for autism
    19. Nutrition program for autism
    20. Nutrition program for neuroinflammation

    
    

    
    

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