Diet, gut microbiota and cognition

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Proctor, Cicely ^a,b,c   Thiennimitr, Parameth ^b   Chattipakorn, Nipon ^b,c   Chattipakorn, Siriporn C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

A high fat high sugar diet; Cognition; Gut microbiota; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDETES; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; DYSBIOSIS; FAT INTAKE; FIRMICUTES; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HOST; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIPID DIET; MENTAL DETERIORATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SUGAR INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MICROBIOLOGY; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

COGNITION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; OBESITY;

EID: 84990841839     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-016-9917-8     Document Type: Review

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