Your brain on food

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavorial Medicine (U.S.) (Added Author).

Summary: Gary Wenk, author of Your brain on food, talks about what's good for your brain is not necessarily good for your body, how chemicals control our brains, why obesity is so difficult to tackle and how to keep your brain healthy ... using food.

Record details

Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
1 DVD-video : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Mansfield Center, Conn. : National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, [2012].

Content descriptions

General Note:	Accompanied by transcript.
Formatted Contents Note:	How drugs and chemicals in the diet affect the brain -- What is good for the brain might not be good for the body -- A reasonable breakfast: setting you in motion for the day -- From challenges to new research in Alzheimer's disease -- Inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease: unraveling the connection -- How anti-inflammatories impact Alzheimer's Disease -- Why the brain finds Nicotine so appealing -- Nutrients and carcinogens: an unexpected relationship -- Food and obesity: why the brain ignores feeling full signals -- How diet and exercise can sabotage weight loss -- Exercise, obesity, inflammation, SSRIs, and antidepressants: their complexities and interconnections -- Increasing Serotonin/Dopamine through mental imagery -- What to eat for brain health.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Ruth Buczynski, Gary Wenk.
System Details Note:	DVD-R.