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Food for thought: the ketogenic diet for epilepsy
Author(s) -
Greener Mark
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.329
Subject(s) - ketogenic diet , tolerability , epilepsy , medicine , action (physics) , pediatrics , psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry , pharmacology , adverse effect , physics , quantum mechanics
It has been known since the 1920s that the ketogenic diet is effective for the control of seizures in people of all ages with epilepsy, yet it remains underused today. Mark Greener discusses the possible mechanisms of action, tolerability issues and how the diet could be modified to increase uptake.
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