Acute effects of a dietary non-starch polysaccharide supplement on cognitive performance in healthy middle-aged adults

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 76-86

  Best, Talitha ^a,b   Howe, Peter ^a,c   Bryan, Janet ^a   Buckley, Jonathan ^a   Scholey, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabinogalactan; Cognition; Dietary polysaccharides; Memory; Middle aged adults; Plant polysaccharides; Saccharides

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NON STARCH POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; (1-6)-ALPHA-GLUCOMANNAN; ACEMANNAN; ARABINOGALACTAN; GALACTANS; GALACTOMANNAN; GLUCOSAMINE; MANNANS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSTHYMIA; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TEST; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SHORT FORM 36; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

AGING; COHORT STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GALACTANS; GLUCOSAMINE; HUMANS; MALE; MANNANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84952861151     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830513Y.0000000101     Document Type: Article

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