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Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain 

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Overview

Duration

5 weeks

Total fee

11,044

Mode of learning

Online

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Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain
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Highlights

  • Duration 5 weeks
  • Weekly study 4 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain
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FutureLearn 
Course details

More about this course
  • Over the last few years, the importance of the link between gut and brain has become clear. On this course you'll explore this complex relationship.
  • You'll learn how the brain works, and is affected by diet and nutritional deficiencies. You'll also discover less known, cutting-edge subjects such as the gut-brain axis, the microbiome, and the relationship between food and reproductive health.

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Introduction

Welcome to the course

Introduction to the brain and cognition

Responses to feeding, reward systems and food addiction

The reward system and response to feeding

Food addiction

Cognitive and emotional influences on food behaviors

Emotions and food intake

Cognition and food intake

Brain, mind and our diet

Food and our brain: the good...

... and the bad

Gut-brain axis and the microbiome

Microbiome and the gut-brain axis

Microbiome and the brain

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