Do you have an infant who is healthy and 3 months old or younger? Researchers at the UNC at Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) are seeking babies for a research study of nutrition and how it affects memory and learning abilities in the first year of life. The […]
By Grace Millsap It has been quite the adventure since we screened our first BERRY participant in February of 2012! It was truly an honor to meet each one of you that has volunteered to be a part of this study. Here are a few statistics that we thought were pretty neat: Total number […]
Research TechnicianThomas Jackson is a North Carolina native who joined the lab in November of 2014. Thomas earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences from NC State University in May of 2014. He hopes to gain a better foundation in the possibilities that nutritional interventions offer to ameliorate fetal alcohol effects and to expand his knowledge […]
From Kelly Shepherd We hope you are all having a great summer. It has been an exciting year for us graduate students. Grant and I attended two major conferences in March and April. The first conference was the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Philadelphia, which covered the developmental and psychological side […]
Defy Gravity There is no better way to celebrate the winter holidays like jumping on trampolines and climbing up ropes. At least that’s what the Cheatham Lab thinks. Defy Gravity in Charlotte, was just the place to warm our hearts and get our holiday bells ringing. We had a blast, and we are already planning […]
By Christa Turski In May we released our brand-new redesigned website, www.cheathamlab.com, and newly designed logo. If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you probably saw us posting #WhatsTheFork. So, what is the fork? It’s our logo! The logo, a combination of a fork and a neuron, represents “feeding the brain”. Before […]
By Carol L. Cheatham, Ph.D. Nutrients do not appear in nature in isolation: there is no such thing as a fruit that contains JUST vitamin C. All foods have several vitamins, minerals, and fiber. This food “matrix” helps vitamins and minerals to be available for the body’s use – a function called bioavailability. We […]
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 […]