(25-03-06) Mixture of essential fatty acids lowers test anxiety

Yehuda S, Rabinovitz S, Mostofsky DI.

Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center, Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. [email protected]

Test anxiety is an incapacitating academic syndrome. This study shows that administration of a polyunsaturated fatty acid mixture of omega-3 and -6 can improve the behavioral variables associated with this type of anxiety, i.e. appetite, mood, mental concentration, fatigue, academic organization and poor sleep, as well as lowering elevated cortisol level, with a corresponding reduction of anxiety.

Nutr Neurosci. 2005 Aug;8(4):265-7.

PMID: 16491653 [PubMed - in process]

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