The McCarrison Society - NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition

Article Index
NL 40/1: Special Generating Healthy Brains Edition
Chairman's comments
GHB Special Report On The McCarrison Society
GHB:Report by Conference Organiser Rev Simon House, MA
GHB: Preconception to late adolescence:
GHB: From past to present: evolution and epigenetics
GHB: CLEAVE LECTURE Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health
GHB: Our changing diet; deficits and disorders
GHB: Genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour
GHB: 'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function
GHB: The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy
GHB: Cornerstones in the Psychobiological Development of Mankind:
GHB: A psycho-soma integration perspective
GHB: 'New Parenting', psychotherapy, prenatal
GHB: Attention deficit disorders
GHB: Priorities in Research Funding
GHB:Into the future; avoiding the cost of folly
GHB: References
News
Mind What You Eat
McCarrison meeting with Sustain
Future Events

Page 10 of 22

GHB: 'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function.

Dr. Jimmy Bell PhD: MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, and his team use MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to assess the real impact of foods on brain function. MRI scanners non-invasively allow researchers to create three-dimensional comparative images.

MRI scanning of pre-term babies has shown that exposure to an ex utero environment prematurely alters brain development. Pre-term brains are smaller, with significantly fewer and less ‘tortuous’ blood vessels – a pattern that may persist into adulthood. The movement of water within the neurons of pre-term babies is also noticeably different from full term.

MRI scanning is also allowing the team to look directly at the activation of the hunger and satiety neurons in the brain. They have found that the activation patterns in very young and very old brains are quite different. The activation pattern was completely different for an omega3 and omega6 fat. An old brain, supplemented with omega3 fats, worked as well as a young brain.

Omega3s also increased the effectiveness of the blood-brain barrier.

<< Prev - Next >>

[ Back ]