Diet -- Brain Connections: Impact on Memory, Mood, Aging and Disease (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781402071294)

Diet-Brain Connections fills a void between the fields of nutrition, behavior and cellular and molecular neurosciences by providing an integrated collection of articles that critically dissect the link between what we eat and how the brain develops and functions in health and disease.
Key topics covered in depth include:

-caloric restriction benefit the brain and retard aging;
-effects of dietary antioxidants on brain function and aging;
-developmental and function consequences of different dietary fatty acids;
-biochemical links between dietary folic acid and psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders;
-effects of nutritional deficit during early development and behavior disorders later in life; -neurochemical basis of the benefits of widely used dietary supplements including creatine and Gingko biloba;
-contribution of dietary toxins such as metals and pesticides to neurological disorders.

Author: Mark P. Mattson
ISBN-10: 1402071299
ISBN-13: 9781402071294
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2002
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d