Nutraceuticals and obsessive-compulsive disorder therapy.

Abstract

Neurological disorders are a major public health concern. Notably, the rate of chronic neurological diseases is affected by lifestyle changes, leading to considerable health-care and economic burden worldwide. Considerable interest has emerged on functional foods due to their beneficial health efficacy. Thus, efforts have been made to extract different bioactive phytochemicals or compounds from therapeutic natural-based products, which has led to functional foods referred to as "vitafoods,""medifoods," "pharmafoods," or "medicinal foods." To overcome neurological illness such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), nutraceuticals have been applied as prophylactic options This review addresses nutraceutical intervention in the OCD treatment.