Course: Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain

How does a mother’s milk affect brain development and function? This video explains why we require mother’s milk as newborns. It shows that many milk-borne factors can affect an adult’s …

How antioxidants present in our diet influence the brain function? In this video Wiesław Wiczkowski discusses the role of common dietary antioxidants, such as flavonoids, in the maintenance of brain …

This video shows connections between endocrine-disrupting compounds present in our diet and the maintenance of neuroendocrine homeostasis. Jan Czerniecki explores how the development of new technologies, new food packaging and …

Hello everybody, and welcome to the final week. During this course we have discussed the relationship between food, body and brain from multiple points of view. After the introductory week, …

This week we explored both good and bad effects of the food we eat on the body and brain. This included discussing molecules that are often described as ‘healthy’, like …

What is inflammaging? This topic has been hotly debated in the scientific community, especially in recent years, as it might be responsible for some of the symptoms and illnesses related …

This video describes the connection between reproduction, diet and the brain. Monika Kaczmarek shows some examples of the coordinators of reproductive system performance, including diet and neuroendocrine system, pointing to …

How does sugar affect our brain? In this video, we explore different forms of sugar present in our diet and determine the necessity to distinguish between sugars, discovering why some …

Nutritional deficiencies were once widespread even the highly developed industrialized nations. Although this is not the case anymore, nutritional deficiencies still affect parts of the population. In the case of …

How do eating disorders affect our brain? In the last decade, neuroscientists started investigating the effects of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa on the brain, trying to find the answer …

Eating disorders are a complex entity. We can distinguish very different level of eating disorders analysis, starting from society, to family, to the individual and to components of the individuals, …

Hello, and welcome to Week 4 ! In the previous weeks, we have explored concepts such as emotions and food intake, rewards systems and food addiction, thus keeping the focus …

You’ve reached the end of Week 3! This week you explored the topics that surround emotions and food intake, and cognitions and food intake. In the last step, we’ve talked …

Eye movements can reveal some aspects of cognitive processes. Sight, together with smell and taste, is an important determinant of food choices and plays a role in the anticipation of …