Mixture of essential fatty acids lowers test anxiety |
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| Authors: | Shlomo Yehuda Sharon Rabinovitz David I. Mostofsky |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Bar Ilan University Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center, Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Ramat Gan, Israel;2. Bar Ilan University Department of Criminology and Gonda Brain Research Center, Ramat Gan, Israel;3. Boston University Department of Psychology, Boston, MA, 02215, USA |
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AbstractTest anxiety is an incapacitating academic syndrome. This study shows that administration of a polyunsaturated fatty acid mixture of omega-3 and -6 can improve the behavioral variables associated with this type of anxiety, i.e. appetite, mood, mental concentration, fatigue, academic organization and poor sleep, as well as lowering elevated cortisol level, with a corresponding reduction of anxiety. |
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| Keywords: | Test anxiety essential fatty acids cortisol appetite |
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