Eating soya improves human memory

• Published in: Psychopharmacologia Vol. 157; no. 4; pp. 430 - 436
• Main Authors: File, Sandra, Jarrett, Nicholas, Fluck, Emma, Duffy, Rosanna, Casey, Karen, Wiseman, Helen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Springer 01.10.2001; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Affect - drug effects; Attention - drug effects; Attention task; Biological and medical sciences; Diet; Estrogens; Female; Frontal lobe; Frontal Lobe - physiology; General pharmacology; Glycine max; Humans; Isoflavones; Long term memory; Male; Matching-to-sample; Medical sciences; Memory; Memory - drug effects; Mental task performance; Nutrient deficiency; Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Phytoestrogens; Post-menopause; Psychomotor Performance - drug effects; Receptor mechanisms; Sex Characteristics; Short term; Human; Frontal lobe; Healthy subject; Soy product; Memory; Attention; Sex; Central nervous system; Oral administration; Cognition; Isoflavone derivatives; Long term; Biological activity; Mood; Food intake; Brain (vertebrata)
• ISSN: 0033-3158; 1432-2072
• DOI: 10.1007/s002130100845

Soya foods are rich in isoflavone phytoestrogens with weak agonist activity at oestrogen receptors. Oestrogen treatment has been found to improve memory in men awaiting gender reassignment and in post-menopausal women. To examine the effects of supervised high versus low soya diets on attention, mem...