Food for thought: Brain, genes, and nutrition

Brain Research

Volumn 1237, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-4

  Williams, Christina L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA DAMAGE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON INTAKE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RETT SYNDROME; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

BRAIN; FOOD; GENES; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; THINKING;

EID: 54749156681     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.09.039     Document Type: Editorial

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