The Cheatham Nutrition & Cognition Lab at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis is looking for participants for their Infant Nutrition & Cognition Studies.
The purpose of these research studies is to determine if eating avocados or eggs during breastfeeding will increase nutrients important for brain development in the milk and subsequently, improve infant cognition.
What participants will do: You and your child will come to the lab for 3 sessions across 3 months. Mom will be asked to eat avocados daily (Hass avocados provided) or eggs 5 times a week (organic egg powder provided), keep a food diary, provide milk and saliva samples, and fill out questionnaires about her infant’s development. Four times during the avocado study period, the study coordinator will deliver fresh avocados to your house and pick up a milk sample. Baby will play age-appropriate games, participate in a memory activity, and provide a saliva sample.
The study is looking for healthy lactating women at 12-15 weeks postpartum. (The infant will be 3 months old at the first session.)
To learn more, please call 704-250-5018, email feedingbrains@unc.edu, or click here to enter your contact information.
You will receive $75 at each visit as a token of appreciation.
Dr. Cheatham is a National Institutes of Health funded developmental cognitive neuroscientist with a dual appointment as Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) on the North Carolina Research Campus. At the NRI, Dr. Cheatham is studying the effects of fatty acids, choline, lutein, and anthocyanins on the development and functioning of the hippocampus and frontal lobes, brain structures that are integral to the formation and retrieval of memories and to higher-order cognition. She uses behavioral assessments and an electrophysiological technique known as event-related potentials in her work with infants, children, and older adults.
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