PUFAs, A Dietary Supplement and Seizure Threshold

Abstract

Investigators at the University of Toronto, Canada studied the effects of chronic dietary supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) derived from fish oil on seizure thresholds in the amygdala as well as on blood and brain PUFA levels in 60-day-old rats.

Keywords

• polyunsaturated fatty acids
• docosahexaenoic acid
• eicosapentaenoic acid