Food-derived serotonergic modulators: Effects on mood and cognition

Nutrition Research Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 223-234

  Hulsken, Sjoerd ^a   Märtin, Antje ^a   Mohajeri, M Hasan ^b   Homberg, Judith Regina ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Food; Monoamine reuptake; Serotonin levels; Therapy; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

MONOAMINE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPLETION; EMOTION; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRESS; SUPPLEMENTATION; TRYPTOPHAN DEPLETION; WELLBEING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BRAIN; COGNITION; DIET; HUMANS; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84899134328     PISSN: 09544224     EISSN: 14752700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954422413000164     Document Type: Article

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