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Sian Williams analyses the importance of diet to brain health.

How to have a better brain by eating differently. Sian Williams meets the neuroscientists with the latest research on how chocolate can boost your brain power.

Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some cases even reverse, mental deterioration.

In this episode Sian analyses the importance of diet to brain health with Professor Barbara Sahakian, Dr Hannah Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former consultant psychiatrist who took up eating chocolate every day to combat memory loss.

Producer: Dixi Stewart.

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