Meet the editor

Julia O. Fedotova, MD, PhD habil., Doc. Biol. Sci, was born in St. Petersburg (Russia), in 1973. She graduated with her Diploma of Pharmacist, Pharmaceutical Faculty, St. Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy in 1996. She received her PhD in specialties – experimental and clinical pharmacology and physiology of human and animals in 1999. She attended Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, University of Catania in

2002, and the Institute of Physiology, Medical School, University of Pecs. She graduated from the special doctoral course in neuropharmacology at the Department of Neuropharmacology in the Institute for Experimental Medicine of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and she received her doctor of Biological Sciences (Ph.D. habil.) in 2008. She is currently a professor at the ITMO University and the leading researcher at the I.P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology. She has more 200 publications (mostly in Russian), 2 patents, and 4 journal articles in collaboration, as well as 6 chapters in journals.

She is a head of the project "The studying of Vitamin D3 role in development of affective-related disorders in women with climacteric period, the search of ways for pharmacorrection", from the highly prestige Russian Scientific Foundation.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface III**

Vitamin D Deficiency in Children and Adults **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 75**

**Chapter 5 95**

Vitamin D Deficiency and Brain Functions **107**

**Chapter 6 109**

**Chapter 7 125**

*by Teodoro Durá-Travé, Fidel Gallinas-Victoriano, María Urretavizcaya-Martinez, Lotfi Ahmed-Mohamed, María Malumbres-Chacón and Paula Moreno-González*

Maternal Vitamin D Status among Different Ethnic Groups and Its Potential

Nutritional Considerations of Vitamin D Deficiency and Strategies of Food

An Evidence-Based Review of Efficacy and Safety of Dietary, Natural

Association of Vitamin D Deficiency and Mood Disorders: A Systematic

The Effects of Vitamin D Deficiency on Neurodegenerative Diseases *by Anna A. Lauer, Daniel Janitschke, Tobias Hartmann, Heike S. Grimm* 

Contribution to Adverse Pregnancy and Child Outcomes

*by Pardis Keshavarz, Parisa Jandaghi, Mojtaba Shafiee, Naorin Islam* 

Vitamin D and Its Deficiency in Saudi Arabia

*by Sami El Khatib and Malak Abou Shahine*

*by Jigna Shah and Sakshi Gurbani*

*and Marcus O.W. Grimm*

Supplements and Sunlight in Vitamin D Deficiency

*by Fawzi F. Bokhari and Mai Albaik*

Vitamin D Deficiency in Children

*and Hassan Vatanparast*

Fortification

*by Jenson Mak*

**Section 2**

Review
