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For the new study, Prof. Barbey and colleagues set out to determine whether or not the benefits of MUFAs might extend to the brain. "Our goal is to understand how nutrition might be used to support cognitive performance and to study the ways in which nutrition may influence the functional organization of the human brain," says Prof. Barbey. "This is important," he goes on to explain, "because if we want to develop nutritional interventions that are effective at enhancing cognitive performance, we need to understand the ways that these nutrients influence brain function."