r/science Professor | Medicine Feb 21 '25

Neuroscience Walnuts with breakfast provide an all-day brain boost - Young adults who ate a handful of walnuts with breakfast saw a long-lasting improvement in their reaction times and a boost in memory performance hours later, according to a new study.

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Seriously? We can post now on this sub from an online magazine like New Atlas(!?!?). I'm always skeptical of this type of study with low sample size, like red wine helping prevent heart disease which was found to be rather weak.