Chewing Maintains Hippocampus-Dependent Cognitive Function
Mastication (chewing) is important not only for food intake, but also for preserving and promoting the general health. Recent studies have showed that mastication helps to maintain cognitive functions in the hippocampus, a central nervous system region ...
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'Mastication plays an important role in preserving the hippocampus-dependent cognitive function. Masticatory deficiency impairs the hippocampal morphology via the neural circuits and HPA axis, resulting in spatial memory and learning deficits. Mastication during stress event could reverse stress-induced neuronal degeneration and suppression of cell proliferation in the hippocampus and attenuates stress-induced impairments of plasticity in the hippocampus by various regulatory nervous inputs, memory-related genes and signaling pathways, stress hormone and its receptors. Therefore, chewing might be an effective approach in maintaining the hippocampus-related spatial learning and memory. Chewing may represent a useful approach in preserving and promoting the hippocampus-dependent cognitive function in older people.'
Chewing is cope brahhh.
