Effects of saccharides on brain function and cognitive performance

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 409-418

  Best, Talitha ^a   Kemps, Eva ^a   Bryan, Janet ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain function; Cognition; Cognitive performance; Saccharides

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FUCOSE; GALACTOSE; GANGLIOSIDE; ISOASCORBIC ACID; MANNOSE; METHYLCELLULOSE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; XYLOSE;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECT; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SUPPLEMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 30744461592     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 00296643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1301/nr.2005.dec.409-418     Document Type: Review

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