The Brain and Nutrition Course

USD 106

Duration
02:25:1 hours

Access Time
Lifetime

Language
Arabic

Resources
(1)

Skill Level
( Specialized )

677

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About the instructor

Dr. Yusr kazem

Researcher of Medical Nutrition

Graduated and got her M.B.B.Ch., from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University December 1985.
Worked as a resident at the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Ain Shams University from 6-6-1987 till 2-5-1990
Masters of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. (Gastrointestinal and nutritional manifestations in AIDS)Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, ( Excellent) November 1989.
A visiting scholar to Duke University, North Carolina USA, 15-10 -1993 till15-10-1995
Ph.D. in Environmental Medicine, Medical Science Department, Institute of Environmental Studies and Research, Ain Shams University. Thesis (Reflection of nutritional status and the environment of Bilharzial patients on the effectiveness of treatment). June 1997.
Professor of medical nutrition since 2011. Has 36 international publications 26 of which are SCOPUS. With 59 citations and h-index =5, in the field of medical and public nutrition and obesity with a special interest in nutrition and the brain ( mood, sleep, cognitive function ). Participated in the training held by the nutrition department in the topics of nutrition and cognitive functions, geriatric nutrition, nutrition, and disease prevention Attended and participated as a speaker in many medical, gastrointestinal, and nutrition conferences.

Objectives of The Brain and Nutrition Course

The link between the brain and the GIT

You Will Learn

To reach the optimum nutritional status, the new trend in nutrition has to address the brain, especially after the recent discoveries about brain-gut access, neurogenesis, and the enteric nervous system.
These three concepts show that what we eat directly affects how we think, behave, sleep, and learn. Accordingly, this is a very important new attitude working in synchronization with the new trend of psychological and medical nutrition.
The new specialties of nutritional psychiatry and nutritional medicine are new in nutrition covering the brain and nutrition.
This course is basic for all those who are really interested to learn about nutrition in its new trends not only feeding people accordingly to calories and food groups, we have to understand that whatever we think affects our gut and whatever we eat affects our brain
the quality of life is affected by the link between nutrition and brain