Impact of nutrition on social decision making

Since a particular region of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) has been identified as an area where activity was lower among obese individuals compared with normal-weight people, Kohl et al. (2019) decided to investigate what would happen to the dietary behaviors of overweight/obese subjects if functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed […]

Dietary intake and other lifestyle choices are amongst a myriad of modifiable risk factors that impact cognitive health, which in turn affects the quality of life, morbidity, and death on a global scale. Nuts are nutrient-rich and contain several substances that may serve as neuroprotectants, such as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, fiber, non-sodium minerals, […]