Organised by the NUTRIMENTHE project and hosted by Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
There is evidence that early nutrition can influence later mental performance, cognitive development and behaviour. The idea that the diet of mothers, infants and children could have an influence on long-term mental performance has major implications for public health practice and policy development and for our understanding of human biology. The NUTRIMENTHE project is looking in more detail at the effect of different nutrients on mental performance, from pre-natal development (early programming) to school age.
This event aims to provide you with an insight into the latest results of the NUTRIMENTHE project.
NUTRIMENTHE is also pleased to welcome Professor Tomas Paus (University of Toronto, Canada) and Professor Elizabeth Isaacs (University College London, UK) to Rotterdam to present on the subject of:
Neuroimaging and Cognitive Function.
Tomas Paus will discuss the use of neuroimaging as a tool for examining the effect of nutrition on the brain. Elizabeth Isaacs will present recent results from neuroimaging studies on children followed-up after early nutritional supplementation.
Draft agenda
Results from the NUTRIMENTHE project:
- The Nutrimenthe project: The effect of diet on the mental performance of children. (Cristina Campoy, University of Granada, Spain)
- Diet and mental performance of children: What do parents think? (Bernadette Egan, University of Surrey)
- Genes, fish intake and child mental performance: results from a UK birth cohort (ALSPAC), (Pauline Emmett, University of Bristol, UK.)
- Nutrition and neurodevelopment: research in a population-based birth cohort (Generation R). (Henning Tiemeier, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Neuroimaging and Cognitive Function:
- Brain Imaging: A tool for evidence-based nutrition across generations.(Tomas Paus, University of Toronto, Canada).
- Using neuroimaging to study the effects of nutrition on the brain. (Elizabeth Isaacs, University College London, UK).
Date and time: May 24th 2012, 2.30pm to 6.10pm.
Venue: Hotel New York, Koninginnehoofd 1, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Location.
Registration: – If you wish to attend this event, please e-mail Renee Schrijver.
