Mixture of essential fatty acids lowers test anxiety

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 265-267

  Yehuda, Shlomo ^a   Rabinovitz, Sharon ^a   Mostofsky, David I ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetite; Cortisol; Essential fatty acids; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

'AWAKE'; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PLACEBO;

ANXIETY DISORDER; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SLEEP;

AFFECT; ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANXIETY; APPETITE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LINOLEIC ACID; MALE; PLACEBOS; TEST ANXIETY SCALE;

EID: 32844471624     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150500445795     Document Type: Article

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