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Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F.
The salutary effects of DHA dietary supplementation on cognition, neuroplasticity, and membrane homeostasis after brain trauma.
J Neurotrauma. 2011, Aug 18. [Abstract]
Ding Q, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F.
Exercise influences hippocampal plasticity by modulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor processing.
Neuroscience. 2011, 192:773-80. [Abstract]
Gomez-Pinilla F, Gomez AG.
The influence of dietary factors in central nervous system plasticity and injury recovery.
PM R. 2011, 3(6 Suppl 1):S111-6. [Abstract]
Gomez-Pinilla F, Ying Z, Agoncillo T, Frostig R.
The influence of naturalistic experience on plasticity markers in somatosensory cortex and hippocampus: effects of whisker use.
Brain Res. 2011, 1388:39-47. [Abstract]
Wu A, Ying Z, Schubert D, Gomez-Pinilla F.
Brain and spinal cord interaction: a dietary curcumin derivative counteracts locomotor and cognitive deficits after brain trauma.
Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2011, 25(4):332-42. [Abstract]
Gomez-Pinilla F.
The combined effects of exercise and foods in preventing neurological and cognitive disorders.
Prev Med. 2011 Jun 1;52 Suppl 1:S75-80. [Abstract]
Gomez-Pinilla F, Zhuang Y, Feng J, Ying Z, Fan G.
Exercise impacts brain-derived neurotrophic factor plasticity by engaging mechanisms of epigenetic regulation.
Eur J Neurosci. 2011, 33(3):383-90. [Abstract]
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Brain Foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008. 9(7):568-578
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Abstract | It has long been suspected that the relative abundance of specific nutrients can affect cognitive processes and emotions. Newly described influences of dietary factors on neuronal function and synaptic plasticity have revealed some of the vital mechanisms that are responsible for the action of diet on brain health and mental function. Several gut hormones that can enter the brain, or that are produced in the brain itself, influence cognitive ability. In addition, well established regulators of synaptic plasticity, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor, can function as metabolic modulators, responding to peripheral signals such as food intake. Understanding the molecular basis of the effects of food on cognition will help us to determine how best to manipulate diet in order to increase the resistance of neurons to insults and promote mental fitness.
 

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Sharma S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F.  A pyrazole curcumin derivative restores membrane homeostasis disrupted after brain trauma. Exp Neurol. 2010, 226(1):191-9.

Krityakiarana W, Espinosa-Jeffrey A, Ghiani CA, Zhao PM, Topaldjikian N, Gomez-Pinilla F, Yamaguchi M, Kotchabhakdi N, de Vellis J. Voluntary exercise increases oligodendrogenesis in spinal cord. Int J Neurosci. 2010 Apr;120(4):280-90.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Ying Z. Differential effects of exercise and dietary docosahexaenoic acid on molecular systems associated with control of allostasis in the hypothalamus and hippocampus. Neuroscience. 2010 Jun 16;168(1):130-7.
Aiguo Wu, Zhe Ying, Gomez-Pinilla F. Vitamin E protects against oxidative damage and learning disability after mild traumatic brain injury in rats. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2010 Mar-Apr;24(3):290-8.
Griesbach GS, Hovda DA, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise-induced improvement in cognitive performance after traumatic brain injury in rats is dependent on BDNF activation. Brain Res. 2009 Sep 8;1288:105-15.

Chytrova G, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise contributes to the effects of DHA dietary supplementation by acting on membrane-related synaptic systems. Brain Res. 2010 Jun 23;1341:32-40.

Sharma S, Zhuang Y, Ying Z, Wu A, Gomez-Pinilla F. Dietary curcumin supplementation counteracts reduction in levels of molecules involved in energy homeostasis after brain trauma. Neuroscience. 2009 Jul 21;161(4):1037-44.

Szabo Z, Ying Z, Radak Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Voluntary exercise may engage proteasome function to benefit the brain after trauma. Brain Res. 2010 Jun 23;1341:25-31.

Hu S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F, Frautschy SA. Exercise can increase small heat shock proteins (sHSP) and pre- and post-synaptic proteins in the hippocampus. Brain Res. 2009 Jan 16;1249:191-201.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Vaynman S, Ying Z. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor functions as a metabotrophin to mediate the effects of exercise on cognition. Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Dec;28(11):2278-87.

Griesbach GS, Sutton RL, Hovda DA, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Controlled contusion injury alters molecular systems associated with cognitive performance. J Neurosci Res. 2009 Feb 15;87(3):795-805.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Kostenkova K. The influence of diet and physical activity on brain repair and neurosurgical outcome. Surg Neurol. 2008 Oct;70(4):333-5; discussion 335-6.

Haastert K, Ying Z, Grothe C, Gomez-Pinilla F. The effects of FGF-2 gene therapy combined with voluntary exercise on axonal regeneration across peripheral nerve gaps. Neurosci Lett. 2008 Oct 10;443(3):179-83.

Ying Z, Roy RR, Zhong H, Zdunowski S, Edgerton VR, Gomez-Pinilla F. BDNF-exercise interactions in the recovery of symmetrical stepping after a cervical hemisection in rats. Neuroscience. 2008 Sep 9;155(4):1070-8.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Docosahexaenoic acid dietary supplementation enhances the effects of exercise on synaptic plasticity and cognition. Neuroscience. 2008 Aug 26;155(3):751-9.

Gomez-Pinilla F. Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jul;9(7):568-78.

Griesbach GS, Hovda DA, Gomez-Pinilla F, Sutton RL. Voluntary exercise or amphetamine treatment, but not the combination, increases hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor and synapsin I following cortical contusion injury in rats. Neuroscience. 2008 Jun 23;154(2):530-40.

Chytrova G, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise normalizes levels of MAG and Nogo-A growth inhibitors after brain trauma. Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Jan;27(1):1-11.

Ang ET, Gomez-Pinilla F. Potential therapeutic effects of exercise to the brain. Curr Med Chem. 2007;14(24):2564-71.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Omega-3 fatty acids supplementation restores mechanisms that maintain brain homeostasis in traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2007 Oct;24(10):1587-95.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Huie JR, Ying Z, Ferguson AR, Crown ED, Baumbauer KM, Edgerton VR, Grau JW. BDNF and learning: Evidence that instrumental training promotes learning within the spinal cord by up-regulating BDNF expression. Neuroscience. 2007 Sep 21;148(4):893-906.

Griesbach GS, Gomez-Pinilla F, Hovda DA. Time window for voluntary exercise-induced increases in hippocampal neuroplasticity molecules after traumatic brain injury is severity dependent. J Neurotrauma. 2007 Jul;24(7):1161-71.

Gomez-Pinilla F. The influences of diet and exercise on mental health through hormesis. Ageing Res Rev. 2008 Jan;7(1):49-62.

Ghiani CA, Ying Z, de Vellis J, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise decreases myelin-associated glycoprotein expression in the spinal cord and positively modulates neuronal growth. Glia. 2007 Jul;55(9):966-75.

Vaynman S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. The select action of hippocampal calcium calmodulin protein kinase II in mediating exercise-enhanced cognitive function. Neuroscience. 2007 Feb 9;144(3):825-33.

Ding Q, Vaynman S, Souda P, Whitelegge JP, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise affects energy metabolism and neural plasticity-related proteins in the hippocampus as revealed by proteomic analysis. Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Sep;24(5):1265-76.

Ben Simon GJ, Hovda DA, Harris NG, Gomez-Pinilla F, Goldberg RA. Traumatic brain injury induced neuroprotection of retinal ganglion cells to optic nerve crush. J Neurotrauma. 2006 Jul;23(7):1072-82.

Vaynman S, Gomez-Pinilla F. Revenge of the "sit": how lifestyle impacts neuronal and cognitive health through molecular systems that interface energy metabolism with neuronal plasticity. J Neurosci Res. 2006 Sep;84(4):699-715.

Guzman-Marin R, Ying Z, Suntsova N, Methippara M, Bashir T, Szymusiak R, Gomez-Pinilla F, McGinty D. Suppression of hippocampal plasticity-related gene expression by sleep deprivation in rats. J Physiol. 2006 Sep 15;575(Pt 3):807-19.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Oxidative stress modulates Sir2alpha in rat hippocampus and cerebral cortex. Eur J Neurosci. 2006 May;23(10):2573-80.

Ding Q, Vaynman S, Akhavan M, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Insulin-like growth factor I interfaces with brain-derived neurotrophic factor-mediated synaptic plasticity to modulate aspects of exercise-induced cognitive function. Neuroscience. 2006 Jul 7;140(3):823-33.

Dishman RK, Berthoud HR, Booth FW, Cotman CW, Edgerton VR, Fleshner MR, Gandevia SC, Gomez-Pinilla F, Greenwood BN, Hillman CH, Kramer AF, Levin BE, Moran TH, Russo-Neustadt AA, Salamone JD, Van Hoomissen JD, Wade CE, York DA, Zigmond MJ. Neurobiology of exercise. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 Mar;14(3):345-56.

Vaynman S, Ying Z, Wu A, Gomez-Pinilla F. Coupling energy metabolism with a mechanism to support brain-derived neurotrophic factor-mediated synaptic plasticity. Neuroscience. 2006;139(4):1221-34.

Koopmans GC, Brans M, Gomez-Pinilla F, Duis S, Gispen WH, Torres-Aleman I, Joosten EA, Hamers FP. Circulating insulin-like growth factor I and functional recovery from spinal cord injury under enriched housing conditions. Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Feb;23(4):1035-46.

Vaynman SS, Ying Z, Yin D, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise differentially regulates synaptic proteins associated to the function of BDNF. Brain Res. 2006 Jan 27;1070(1):124-30.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Dietary curcumin counteracts the outcome of traumatic brain injury on oxidative stress, synaptic plasticity, and cognition. Exp Neurol. 2006 Feb;197(2):309-17.

Vaynman S, Gomez-Pinilla F. License to run: exercise impacts functional plasticity in the intact and injured central nervous system by using neurotrophins. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2005 Dec;19(4):283-95.

Woerly S, Awosika O, Zhao P, Agbo C, Gomez-Pinilla F, de Vellis J, Espinosa-Jeffrey A. Expression of heat shock protein (HSP)-25 and HSP-32 in the rat spinal cord reconstructed with Neurogel. Neurochem Res. 2005 Jun-Jul;30(6-7):721-35.

Ying Z, Roy RR, Edgerton VR, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise restores levels of neurotrophins and synaptic plasticity following spinal cord injury. Exp Neurol. 2005 Jun;193(2):411-9.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Vaynman S. A "deficient environment" in prenatal life may compromise systems important for cognitive function by affecting BDNF in the hippocampus. Exp Neurol. 2005 Apr;192(2):235-43.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Dietary omega-3 fatty acids normalize BDNF levels, reduce oxidative damage, and counteract learning disability after traumatic brain injury in rats. J Neurotrauma. 2004 Oct;21(10):1457-67.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Ying Z, Roy RR, Hodgson J, Edgerton VR. Afferent input modulates neurotrophins and synaptic plasticity in the spinal cord. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Dec;92(6):3423-32.

Vaynman S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Hippocampal BDNF mediates the efficacy of exercise on synaptic plasticity and cognition. Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Nov;20(10):2580-90.

Griesbach GS, Gomez-Pinilla F, Hovda DA. The upregulation of plasticity-related proteins following TBI is disrupted with acute voluntary exercise. Brain Res. 2004 Aug 6;1016(2):154-62.

Molteni R, Zheng JQ, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F, Twiss JL. Voluntary exercise increases axonal regeneration from sensory neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Jun 1;101(22):8473-8.

Vaynman S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise induces BDNF and synapsin I to specific hippocampal subfields. J Neurosci Res. 2004 May 1;76(3):356-62.

Wu A, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. The interplay between oxidative stress and brain-derived neurotrophic factor modulates the outcome of a saturated fat diet on synaptic plasticity and cognition. Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Apr;19(7):1699-707.

Hutchinson KJ, Gomez-Pinilla F, Crowe MJ, Ying Z, Basso DM. Three exercise paradigms differentially improve sensory recovery after spinal cord contusion in rats. Brain. 2004 Jun;127(Pt 6):1403-14.

Griesbach GS, Hovda DA, Molteni R, Wu A, Gomez-Pinilla F. Voluntary exercise following traumatic brain injury: brain-derived neurotrophic factor upregulation and recovery of function. Neuroscience. 2004;125(1):129-39.

Molteni R, Wu A, Vaynman S, Ying Z, Barnard RJ, Gomez-Pinilla F. Exercise reverses the harmful effects of consumption of a high-fat diet on synaptic and behavioral plasticity associated to the action of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.Neuroscience. 2004;123(2):429-40.

Vaynman S, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Interplay between brain-derived neurotrophic factor and signal transduction modulators in the regulation of the effects of exercise on synaptic-plasticity. Neuroscience. 2003;122(3):647-57.

Ying Z, Roy RR, Edgerton VR, Gomez-Pinilla F. Voluntary exercise increases neurotrophin-3 and its receptor TrkC in the spinal cord. Brain Res. 2003 Oct 10;987(1):93-9.

Wu A, Molteni R, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. A saturated-fat diet aggravates the outcome of traumatic brain injury on hippocampal plasticity and cognitive function by reducing brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Neuroscience. 2003;119(2):365-75.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Ying Z, Roy RR, Molteni R, Edgerton VR. Voluntary exercise induces a BDNF-mediated mechanism that promotes neuroplasticity. J Neurophysiol. 2002 Nov;88(5):2187-95.

Molteni R, Ying Z, Gomez-Pinilla F. Differential effects of acute and chronic exercise on plasticity-related genes in the rat hippocampus revealed by microarray. Eur J Neurosci. 2002 Sep;16(6):1107-16.

Griesbach GS, Hovda DA, Molteni R, Gomez-Pinilla F. Alterations in BDNF and synapsin I within the occipital cortex and hippocampus after mild traumatic brain injury in the developing rat: reflections of injury-induced neuroplasticity. J Neurotrauma. 2002 Jul;19(7):803-14.

Li HH, Zhao HZ, Neufeld EF, Cai Y, Gomez-Pinilla F. Attenuated plasticity in neurons and astrocytes in the mouse model of Sanfilippo syndrome type B. J Neurosci Res. 2002 Jul 1;69(1):30-8.

Molteni R, Barnard RJ, Ying Z, Roberts CK, Gomez-Pinilla F. A high-fat, refined sugar diet reduces hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neuronal plasticity, and learning. Neuroscience. 2002;112(4):803-14.

Gomez-Pinilla F, So V, Kesslak JP. Spatial learning induces neurotrophin receptor and synapsin I in the hippocampus. Brain Res. 2001 Jun 15;904(1):13-9.

Gomez-Pinilla F, Ying Z, Opazo P, Roy RR, Edgerton VR. Differential regulation by exercise of BDNF and NT-3 in rat spinal cord and skeletal muscle. Eur J Neurosci. 2001 Mar;13(6):1078-84.