News
September 2014: The Neurophenols team will presenting at the BENEFIQ, an international forum on health ingredients, which will be held on September 24-25th 2014 in Québec City.
Juin 2014: Alexandre Dal-Pan, Post-doc researcher at INAF, has participated at ISANH Congress at Lisbonne, the june 5th 2014.
December 2013: Nutrineuro laboratory has participated at the last meeting of the Institute of Nutrition Aquitaine Québec (INAQ), the december 10th 2013, in Bordeaux.
October 2013: Julien Bensalem, ACTIV’INSIDE PhD student linked to NUTRINEURO laboratory, won a Young Investigator Award at the " 6th International Congress on Polyphenols and Health" (ICPH6), in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the october 19th 2013.
May 2013: The Neurophenols Project was awarded for the Prix Agrimip des Lycéens 2013. This award is given to honor collaborative projects between scientific, technological, industrial and organizational large groups and academic research, in France (Aquitaine, Bretagne, Pays de la Loire) and Canada (Québec).
Research
The Neurophenols project brings together more than 30 professionals including 22 scientists and engineers focused on research. These scientists are grouped into different cells, each working on a specific part of the project.
On this page, the scientists will keep you posted on research progress.
- Clinical study
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Véronique PALLET Professor-Researcher at NUTRINEURO (Bordeaux, FR) |
Lucille CAPURON |
"The clinical study focusing on the preventive effects of supplementation with plant polyphenols on memory ability and well-being of older people is ongoing. The effects of this nutritional intervention are measured by psychological and biological tests. Individual variability is assessed by genetic and transcriptomic analyzes."
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Catherine BEGIN Professor-Researcher at School of Psychology (Laval University, Québec City, CA) |
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Carol HUDON Professor-Researcher at School of Psychology (Université Laval, Ville de Québec, CA) |
"This intervention study is undertaken as a multicenter, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study among French and Quebecer subjects. The methodology of the study is based on the results of two longitudinal studies. We want to test the effects of a daily supplementation of fruit extracts during 6 months among adults aged from 60 to 70 years.
The efficacy of fruit extracts intervention will be evaluated on memory performances. As a second objective, we will also evaluate the effect of this supplementation on psychological aspects (depression, fatigue, memory complaint).
Indeed, we postulate that the improvement of cognitive functioning will have psychological benefits and that the volunteers exposed to the treatment will have a better quality of life and will be less likely to be depressed."