Need of Clinical and Mechanism-Based Preclinical Studies on the Efficacy of Nutraceuticals for Treating Brain Disorders

In recent years, the attention and direction of food science has been shifting from food safety and food flavor research to nutraceuticals and functional foods. Nutraceuticals is a broad term that describes products, which other than nutrition are also used as medicine. The present article discusses about the need of clinical and mechanism-based preclinical studies on the efficacy of nutraceuticals in treating brain disorders.