Habitual tea drinking modulates brain efficiency: evidence from brain connectivity evaluation.

ABSTRACT: The majority of tea studies have relied on neuropsychological measures, and much fewer on neuroimaging measures, especially for interregional connections. To date, there has been no exploration of the effect of tea on system-level brain networks. We recruited healthy older participants to two groups according to their history of tea drinking frequency and investigated both functional and structural networks to reveal the role of tea drinking on brain organization. The results showed that tea drinking gave rise to the more efficient structural organization, but had no significant beneficial effect on the global functional organization. The suppression of hemispheric asymmetry in the structural connectivity network was observed as a result of tea drinking. We did not observe any significant

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594801 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature