Open AccessNutrition and cognition: meeting the challenge to obtain credible and evidence‐based facts
Author(s) -
Schmitt Jeroen AJ
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nutrition reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.958
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1753-4887
pISSN - 0029-6643
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2010.00329.x
Subject(s) - cognition , randomized controlled trial , psychology , term (time) , medicine , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics
Nutrition provides a practical and appealing approach to cognitive enhancement, including the modulation of long‐term cognitive processes such as neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration. An abundance of promising nutritional influences on cognition have been identified, but many long‐term effects remain to be confirmed by data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The current article provides a general outline of various factors that hamper the demonstration of causal long‐term nutritional effects on cognition by RCTs and advocates the development of methodological solutions to enable substantiation in future RCTs.