RESEARCH
A collection of medical ketogenic diet for metabolic and mental health research with sources and citations.
Epilepsy & ketogenic diet research
Dr. Palmer’s Psychology Today article on the ketogenic diet in epilepsy treatment.
- Neal EG, Chaffe H, Schwartz RH, et al. The ketogenic diet for the treatment of childhood epilepsy: a randomized controlled trial. Lancet Neurology 2008; 7:500–506. [Article] [PubMed]
- Freeman JM, Vining EPG, Kossoff EH, et al. A blinded, crossover study of the ketogenic diet. Epilepsia 2009; 50:322–325.
- Martin K, Jackson CF, Levy RG, Cooper PN. Ketogenic diet and other dietary treatments for epilepsy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD001903. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001903.pub3.
- Bough, K. J. and Rho, J. M. (2007), Anticonvulsant Mechanisms of the Ketogenic Diet. Epilepsia, 48: 43-58. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.00915.x
Bipolar & ketogenic diet research
Bipolar & keto research summary article
- Yaroslovsky et al. Ketogenic Diet in Bipolar Illness. Bipolar Disorders 2002: 4: 75
- Phelps et al. The ketogenic diet for type II bipolar disorder. Neurocase, 2013;19(5):423-6 [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Coello K, Vinberg M, Knop FK, et al. Metabolic profile in patients with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder and their unaffected first‑degree relatives [published online April 2, 2019]. International Journal Bipolar Disorder. doi:10.1186/s40345-019-0142-3
Schizophrenia and ketogenic diet research
Keto research summary article
- Sarnyai Z, Kraeuter AK, Palmer CM. Ketogenic diet for schizophrenia: clinical implication. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 2019 Jun 11. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000535. Epub ahead of print [PubMed]
- Palmer C, Javier T, Westman E. The ketogenic diet and remission of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: Two case studies. Schizophrenia Research 2019; April 6
- Pacheco et al. A pilot study of the ketogenic diet in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 1965, 121:1110-1111. [Article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Kraft and Westman E. , Schizophrenia, gluten, and low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diets: a case report and review of the literature. Nutrition & Metabolism 2009, 6:10 [Article] [Google Scholar]
- Kraeuter, A.K., Loxton, H., Lima, B.C., Rudd, D., Sarnyai, Z., 2015. Ketogenic diet reverses behavioral abnormalities in an acute NMDA receptor hypofunction model of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 169, 491-493. [Abstract] [Google Scholar]