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Fish oil supplementation and physical exercise program: distinct effects on different memory tasks.

A L F Rachetti¹, R M Arida, C L Patti

¹Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, R. Botucatu, 862, Ed. Ciências Biomédicas, 5° andar, 04023900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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Long-term fish oil supplementation and physical exercise enhance cognitive function in rats. Fish oil improves memory persistence, while exercise boosts discriminative avoidance memory, offering distinct benefits for brain health.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Nutritional Neuroscience
Behavioral Neuroscience

Background:

Fish oil supplementation and physical exercise are known to benefit mental health.
Both interventions improve cognitive performance, neuroplasticity, and protect against neurological damage.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the cognitive effects of long-term fish oil supplementation, physical exercise, and their combination in rats.
To assess memory persistence and avoidance learning from prenatal to midlife stages.

Main Methods:

Rats received daily fish oil (85 mg/kg/day) or moderate treadmill exercise from prenatal to midlife (300 days old).
Cognitive functions were evaluated using open-field habituation, object recognition, and plus-maze discriminative avoidance tasks.

Main Results:

Fish oil supplementation enhanced long-term habituation and recognition memory persistence.
Physical exercise potentiated discriminative avoidance memory persistence.
Neither intervention altered emotionality or locomotor activity.

Conclusions:

Long-term fish oil supplementation, initiated prenatally, distinctly improves specific cognitive functions.
Lifelong physical exercise distinctly enhances discriminative avoidance memory.
Both interventions promote cognitive performance through different mechanisms.