Food fuels the body, but research increasingly shows that it also supports the brain. A new Special Collection on Nutrition and the Brain in ASN’s The Journal of Nutrition brings together research from the growing field of nutritional cognitive neuroscience.
A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain’s smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and behavior.
The research, published in the journal Nature Communications
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At UMass Chan’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, researchers are on a heartwarming mission: to understand how babies build the brain circuits that help them connect with others.
Through the Baby Brain Study, scientists have been tracking over 80 babies and
“Jungmeen and I get to tackle thorny problems while pursuing answers to questions that matter for promoting healthier youth development,” Deater-Deckard said. “Our team utilizes state-of-the-art quantitative modeling techniques to integrate complex arrays of data from many sources such as
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