Gum Chewing and Cognition: An Overview

Gum Chewing and Cognition: An Overview

In recent years, there was a debate about the effects of gum chewing on various aspects of cognitive functioning. In this review, the results of previous studies are presented and summarized. There is a clear indication that gum chewing can improve various aspects of cognitive functioning including memory, attention and both executive and intellectual functioning. However, there is also clear e...

An overview on Medicated Chewing Gum and its Applications

RESEARCH AND REVIEWS: JOURNAL OF DENTAL SCIENCES Medicated Chewing Gum: An Overview

Oral drug delivery system has been area of interest for researcher and scientist to explore it to the extreme potential in drug delivery system in past few years. The researchers are focusing on this drug delivery because of ease of administration and comfort offered by this route to patient. Hence drug delivery can be achieved by incorporating medicament in Chewing gum (CG) base because oral m...

Chewing gum and stress reduction

Article history: Received: March 26, 2016 Revised: April 12, 2016 Accepted: April 23, 2016 Published online: April 24, 2016 The behavioral effects of chewing gum have been studied for over 80 years and much of the research has been concerned with increases in alertness and attention. Another line of research has addressed the issue of whether chewing gum reduces stress. This topic has been stud...

Chewing gum and context-dependent memory: the independent roles of chewing gum and mint flavour.

Two experiments independently investigated the basis of the chewing gum induced context-dependent memory effect. At learning and/or recall, participants either chewed flavourless gum (Experiment 1) or received mint-flavoured strips (Experiment 2). No context-dependent memory effect was found with either flavourless gum or mint-flavoured strips, indicating that independently the contexts were in...