Dietary polydextrose and galactooligosaccharide increase exploratory behavior, improve recognition memory, and alter neurochemistry in the young pig.
Stephen A FlemingSupida MonaikulAlexander J PatsavasRosaline V WaworuntuBrian M BergRyan Neil DilgerPublished in: Nutritional neuroscience (2017)
These findings suggest that early life consumption of PDX/GOS supports recognition memory as measured by NOR while modulating the concentrations of VFAs in the colon, blood, and brain, as well as hippocampal serotonin.