7 Feb 2014 - Nutraingredients - Omega-3 rich diet linked to more developed brain networks: Monkey data

The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, provides further evidence for the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in healthy brain development by demonstrating that monkeys that consume a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids have brains with highly connected and well organised neural networks - similar to neural networks in healthy humans - while monkeys that ate a diet deficient in the fatty acids had much more limited brain networking.