STOCKHOLM, Nov 15: Remember your mother telling you: “Eat your fish. It’s good for your brain.” She may just have been right. Scientist think they have evidence that fish oil could cure mental disorders such as depression and dyslexia — conditions increasingly common in the Western world.

“This really does represent a breakthrough in the managing of individual depressions,” Alexandra Richardson, Senior Neuroscience Research Fellow at Britain’s University of Oxford, told a seminar about depression in Stockholm on Thursday.

“If the brain does not have the right fats, it will not be working right.”

The right fats to beat the blues are large amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish such as salmon and mackerel.—Reuters