Advances in Natural Medicines, Nutraceuticals and Neurocognition

ISBN-13: 9781439893609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 369 str.

Andrew Scholey; Con Kerry Kenneth Stough

Opis

More than half of those who see a general practitioner are taking some sort of natural medicine supplement, but little is known about the neurocognitive effects of these substances. This book examines whether natural and herbal medicines, vitamins, and supplements improve human cognition and/or brain processes in the healthy young and elderly and in disorders of cognition such as Alzheimer's Dementia. The book addresses different classes of supplements, different demographic groups, and recent research in the relationship between specific supplements and intelligence, memory, cognition, and brain functioning.

Spis treści

Methodologies to Measure Cognition in Natural Medicine Trials. Natural Substances as Treatments for Age-Related Cognitive Declines. Measuring and Interpreting the Efficacy of Nutraceutical Interventions for Age-Related Cognitive Decline. Vitamins and Nutrients. Actions of N-Acetylcysteine in the Central Nervous System. Neurocognition and Micronutrients in the Elderly. Lipoic Acid as an Anti-Inflammatory and Neuroprotective Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. Metabolic Agents and Cognitive Function. Vitamins, Cognition, and Mood in Healthy Nonelderly Adults. Essential Fatty Acids and Neurocognition. Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Behavior. Omega 3 Fatty Acids. Herbal Medicines and Neurocognition. Chinese Medicine Used to Treat Dementia. Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) and Cognitive Function. Assessing the Utility of Bacopa monnieri to Treat the Neurobiological and Cognitive Processes Underpinning Cognitive Aging. The Memory-Enhancing and Associated Effects of a Bacosides-Enriched Standardized Extract of Bacopa monniera (BESEB—CDRI-08). Botanical Anxiolytics, Antidepressants, and Hypnotics. Huperzine A. Index.

O autorze

Andrew Scholey is a Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.

Con Kerry Kenneth Stough is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn Victoria, Australia.