I recently completed a lecture tour in Vietnam and Singapore during which I was speaking to health care professionals about the importance of maternal nutrition. I basically was asked to educate them on the nutrients that are important during pregnancy for the proper functioning of the baby’s brain. It was a very enlightening tour. First, […]
Last year for the NC Science Festival, the Cheatham Lab partnered with Kannapolis Parks and Recreation and the Kannapolis library to showcase children’s musician Roger Day’s newest CD, Why Does Gray Matter? All of the songs were in some way related to the brain. His song “Brain Food” even referenced the blueberries and omega-3s we […]
Well, a lot has happened since we last put out a newsletter. I think my staff has been playing “Where in the World is Dr. C?” As I mentioned last time, we have funding from the Gates Foundation to work at the Medical Research Council (UK) field station in Keneba with women and children from […]
This past year, we collaborated with Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) on a project where we hosted two interns to assist with work on the BERRY study. Indhu Gopal, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Health & Human Performance Department selected Erick Velazquillo and A’Tyan Kennedy, upper-level students at JCSU. When we asked Erick about […]
Between February and May of this year alone I traveled over 175,000 air miles. I have been from the Philippines to Sweden, from China to Germany. Where do I begin to tell you about the things I have learned, the people I have met, and the children I hope I have helped?
The Cheatham Lab has a cool new tool for understanding nutrition and cognitive development. It’s called a near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system. NIRS offers another way to examine brain activity while people complete various tasks. Despite the fact that they look somewhat similar, NIRS is different from the electroencephalography (EEG) system we have and that many […]
By Kelly Shephard We are busy here at the Cheatham Lab with three different studies. We’ve got toddlers, and older folk, and now even 7- to 12-year-olds! We always like it when we have lots of people coming to the lab, though. That’s why our new study with 7- to 12-year-olds is so much fun. […]
…at least for now. We have been diligently working on a follow-up study to the human milk study that was conducted from 2009 to 2011. The original study involved bringing in babies at six months of age to see if the mom’s genotype for the gene that determines how fatty acids are used in the […]