Behavioral, Neurological, & Psychological Studies
Diet is used in various ways to study behavior, psychology, and neurological disorders.
Research of conditioned response, cognitive behavior, and similar studies, uses "precision food pellets" or "tablets" such as first used with rats by Harvard Professor B. F. Skinner. See Tablets.
Variations in the nutritional composition of diets in whatever form – pellets, powder, liquid, and tablets – may elicit or alter behaviors, ameliorate or aggravate neurological disorders, and express or repress genetic predispositions for psychological or cognitive traits.
Diets can also be used for dosing of medications and test compounds in studying pharmacological treatment of these disorders.
See also:
Representative listing of references reporting how diet formulas have been used in research.
