FIELD: nutrition.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the use of a human milk oligosaccharide or a nutritional composition containing a human milk oligosaccharide in the treatment and/or prevention of suboptimal executive function in a subject. Moreover, the test results of a subject not suffering from suboptimal executive function will be within the ranges considered non-pathological for a subject of a given type and age. Wherein the said human milk oligosaccharide is preferably selected from the group consisting of 2'-fucosyllactose (2'FL), difucosyllactose (diFL), lacto-N-tetraose (LNT), lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), sialyllactose and any combination the above substances.
EFFECT: invention makes it possible to improve the executive function of a subject.
9 cl, 4 dwg, 2 tbl, 3 ex
