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Jul 2023
28m 47s

Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide.

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Dan Saladino and psychologist Kimberley Wilson explore the latest science about food, mental health and boosting our brain power.

Featuring Professor Michael A Crawford (Imperial), Professor Felice Jacka, Professor Felice Jacka of the Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University, Australia and Professor Ted Dinan, psychiatrist at University College Cork. Also, from the Radio 4 archive, Dr Bernard Gesch, Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford (featured in The Food Programme 2005), Dr Simon Dyall, nutritional neuro-scientist at the University of Roehampton (Just One Thing) and Allesandra Borsini, Senior Research Fellow at Kings College (All In The Mind).

Produced by Dan Saladino

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