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David Benton is a researcher affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with particular attention to subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics explored in their research include nutritional studies and diet, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, diet and metabolism studies, sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and issues related to obesity, physical activity, and diet.

David Benton has published extensively in a range of venues. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Scientific Reports
  • Appetite
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Behavior Therapy

Their recent papers include:

  • Carbohydrate and sleep: An evaluation of putative mechanisms, 2022, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Is Associated With Attenuated Interoceptive Responses to Self-Critical Rumination, 2021, Behavior Therapy
  • Individual differences in sensory and expectation driven interoceptive processes: a novel paradigm with implications for alexithymia, disordered eating and obesity, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The impact of glycaemic load on cognitive performance: A meta-analysis and guiding principles for future research, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Mediterranean diet, interoception and mental health: Is it time to look beyond the 'Gut-brain axis'?, 2022, Physiology & Behavior

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Hayley A. Young
  • Chantelle Gaylor
  • Anthony Brennan
  • Anthony Bloxham
  • Gary Freegard

Best Publications

  • Impact of consuming a milk drink containing a probiotic on mood and cognition

    D Benton;C Williams;A Brown

  • Role of parents in the determination of the food preferences of children and the development of obesity

    David Benton

  • Impact of postprandial glycaemia on health and prevention of disease

    E. E. Blaak;J. M. Antoine;D. Benton;I. Björck

  • The biology of aggression

    Paul F. Brain;David Benton

  • Breakfast, blood glucose, and cognition.

    David Benton;Pearl Y Parker

  • EFFECT OF VITAMIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION ON INTELLIGENCE OF A SAMPLE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

    David Benton;Gwilym Roberts

  • Blood glucose influences memory and attention in young adults.

    David Benton;Deborah S. Owens;Pearl Y. Parker

  • “Depression” increases “craving” for sweet rewards in animal and human models of depression and craving

    P. Willner;David Benton;Emma Brown;Survjit Cheeta

  • The delivery rate of dietary carbohydrates affects cognitive performance in both rats and humans

    David Benton;Marie-Pierre Ruffin;Taous Lassel;Samantha Nabb

  • Heart-rate variability: a biomarker to study the influence of nutrition on physiological and psychological health?

    Hayley A. Young;David Benton

  • The effects of nutrients on mood.

    David Benton;Rachael T Donohoe

  • Carbohydrate ingestion, blood glucose and mood.

    David Benton

  • The influence of dietary status on the cognitive performance of children.

    David Benton

  • Multidisciplinary approaches to aggression research

    Paul F. Brain;David Benton

  • The interpretation of physiological correlates of differential housing in laboratory rats.

    Paul Brain;David Benton

  • Blood glucose and human memory

    David Benton;Deborah S. Owens

  • Micronutrient status, cognition and behavioral problems in childhood

    David Benton

  • The impact of selenium supplementation on mood.

    David Benton;Richard Cook

  • Cognitive functioning is susceptible to the level of blood glucose.

    Rachael T. Donohoe;David Benton

  • Breakfast, blood glucose and memory.

    David Benton;Julia Sargent

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. Brain
Paul F. Brain Swansea University
Simon Folkard
Simon Folkard Swansea University
Paul Willner
Paul Willner Swansea University
Alicia Salvador
Alicia Salvador University of Valencia

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