Plants for thought

Mohamed Ashraf Virmani

doi:10.14719/pst.2014.1.1.9

Plants for thought

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Mohamed Ashraf Virmani Research, Innovation and Development Department, Sigma-tau SpA, Via Pontina km 30,400, 00040 Pomezia (Roma)

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https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2014.1.1.9

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Abstract

The title may be misleading in suggesting that plants think, even though this is an interesting question. The argument here is how plants have evolved either by accident or by some ‘natural’ intelligence to exert effects on our thoughts.

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Author Biography

Mohamed Ashraf Virmani, Research, Innovation and Development Department, Sigma-tau SpA, Via Pontina km 30,400, 00040 Pomezia (Roma)

Peer-reviewer for over 30 Journals and over 100 publications Founder & Vice-president of European Mind and Metabolism Association (EMMA).

External Expert for the Evaluation and Assessment ofEECCommission Projects. Committee member of the International Drug Abuse Research Society

Voluntary Scientific Project reviewer for Help the Aged, UK. Parkinson’s Disease Society, UK

References

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. (1826). “Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.” [Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are]. In Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante. Paris: A. Sautelet.

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Virmani, A., Pinto, L., Binienda, Z., & Ali, S. (2013). Food, nutrigenomics, and neurodegeneration--neuroprotection by what you eat! Mol Neurobiol. 48(2), 353-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12035-013-8498-3

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01-01-2014

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Virmani MA. Plants for thought. Plant Sci. Today [Internet]. 2014 Jan. 1 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];1(1):2. Available from: https://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/article/view/p2

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Opinion

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