Anti-stress effects of lemon balm-containing foods

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4805-4821

  Scholey, Andrew ^a   Gibbs, Amy ^a   Neale, Chris ^a   Perry, Naomi ^a   Ossoukhova, Anastasia ^a   Bilog, Vanessa ^a   Kras, Marni ^a   Scholz, Claudia ^b   Sass, Mathias ^c   Buchwald Werner, Sybille ^d  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Merck Selbstmedikation GmbH   (Germany)

^c Rudolf Wild GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^d Vital Solutions GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Functional food; Lemon balm; Melissa officinalis; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MELISSA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; PLACEBO; ROSMARINIC ACID; SWEETENING AGENT; YOGHURT; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEPSIDE; PLANT EXTRACT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BOND LADER VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DRUG RESEARCH CORE BATTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION ANXIETY STRESS SCALE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MOOD; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STROOP TEST; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; AFFECT; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; LIFESTYLE; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; YOUNG ADULT;

CITRUS LIMON; MELISSA OFFICINALIS;

ADULT; AFFECT; CINNAMATES; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEPSIDES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MELISSA; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908296693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6114805     Document Type: Article

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