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ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine2026

Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Brain Health: A Scoping Review of Observational and Interventional Evidence.

Lydia Viviana Falsitta, Aleksandra Pikula

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Review in American journal of lifestyle medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lydia Viviana FalsittaUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (LVF).ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6603-7832
Aleksandra PikulaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (AP).

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthy dietary interventions are well established in cardiovascular disease prevention, but their effects on the brain remain underexplored. This scoping review aims to investigate how adherence to core components of a whole-food plant-based diet (WFPBD) may impact neuroimaging outcomes across different brain conditions. We searched PubMed and MEDLINE for studies published in the past 20 years evaluating the effects of a predominantly or exclusively WFPBD, alone or combined with other lifestyle factors, on neuroimaging biomarkers. Selected studies were grouped into three domains: (1) demyelinating disease, (2) dementia and Alzheimer's disease, (3) cognitive aging and cerebrovascular burden. The dataset comprised heterogeneous study designs and follow-up durations, including randomized-controlled trials (RCTs; n

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PMCPMC13002482

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