Vitamin status, cognition and mood in cognitively intact adults

Lifetime Nutritional Influences on Cognition, Behaviour and Psychiatric Illness

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 194-250

  Kennedy, D ^a   Jones, E ^a   Haskell, C ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitively intact; Minerals; Mood; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053978675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857092922.2.194     Document Type: Chapter

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