About this event
- Date and time Mon 13 Nov 2023 from 9:30am to 4:50pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Food and Health
Join us for an engaging and informative meeting that delves into the critical role of diet in establishing and maintaining optimal brain health throughout our lives. The event aims to equip you with a greater awareness of crucial issues and potential solutions, enabling you to identify and anticipate problems related to the impact of diet on cognitive function. Additionally, you will gain insights into ways to reduce these risks and understand the development of future policies.
By attending, you will:
- Acquire a critical knowledge of the evidence linking diet quality to brain health
- Recognise the strengths, diversity, and limitations of the science of nutrition and brain health
- Understand potential mechanisms by which nutrition can influence brain development and function throughout the lifespan
- Gain awareness of the importance of early life and maternal nutrition on brain development and cognitive function
- Understand ways to support older clients and patients to minimise the risk of cognitive decline through better nutrition
So register today, and hear from expert international speakers in healthcare and academia as they explore the substantial impact that healthy or unhealthy nutrition can have on cognitive abilities throughout a person's lifespan.
This pre-recorded webinar will be available seven days after the in-person event on Wednesday 8 November 2023. Registered event participants will receive the link to the recording via email to watch on-demand for up to 60 days.
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Agenda
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Welcome and introduction
Dr Leigh Gibson, President, Food and Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine, and Associate Professor in Biopsychology, University of Roehampton
Session 1
Chair: Dr Leigh Gibson, President, Food and Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine, and Associate Professor in Biopsychology, University of Roehampton
Brain ill-health is now recognized as a global health emergency. Can we fix it?
Professor Michael Crawford, Visiting Professor, Imperial College Londo
B vitamins and brain health over the lifespan
Dr Celeste de Jager, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Panel discussion
Comfort break
Evidence for impairment of hippocampal dependent learning and memory by ‘Western’ diet
Dr Tuki Attuquayefio, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Does genotype influence the associations between diet and cognition?
Professor Anne-Marie Minihane, Professor of Nutrigenomics, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Panel discussion
Lunch break
Session 2
Chair: Prof Sandra Sunram-Lea, Professor of Biological Psychology, Lancaster University
Impact of maternal and early diet on children’s cognitive performance
Dr Pauline Emmett, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Population Health Science Institute, Bristol Medical School
The role of nutrition in child development and brain health
Dr Rachel Gow, Child Neuropsychologist and Nutritional Neuroscience, King's College London
Panel discussion
Comfort break
The role of glycemic control on sleep quality and cognitive function
Dr Lauren Owen, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience, Leeds Beckett University
Diet and cognition claims: A critical view of the quality of the evidence
Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait, Professor of Human Nutrition, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Dr Leigh Gibson, President, Food and Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine, and Associate Professor in Biopsychology, University of Roehampton
Close of meeting
Location
Online
Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Tuesday 14 November 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.