 | Undernutrition and Behavioral Development in Children, Proceedings of an IDECG Workshop, December 1993, University of California, USA, Supplement of The Journal of Nutrition (International Dietary Energy Consultative Group - IDECG, 1993, 78 pages) |
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| | Introduction |
|  | Malnutrition and the brain: changing concepts, changing concerns1 |
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| | Historic reasons for suspecting neonatal malnutrition should permanently disrupt cognitive functioning: effects on total size of the cerebrum |
| | Enduring effects of early malnutrition on total brain and cerbral cortex |
| | Functional estimates of changes in brain structure |
| | Further substantiation of enduring changes in neurotransmitter metabolism caused by early malnutrition |
| | Other enduring functional effects of early malnutrition on brain: the hippocampus |
| | Early malnutrition and cerebellar changes |
| | Literature cited |
| | Enduring cognitive effects of early malnutrition: a theoretical reappraisal1 |
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| | Enduring effects of early malnutrition in animals5 |
| | Cognitive effects, independent of altered motivation and/or emotion? |
| | Literature cited |
| | A review of studies of the effect of severe malnutrition on mental developments1 |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Diagnosis of severe malnutrition |
| | Research considerations |
| | The acute stage of severe malnutrition |
| | Short-term effects of severe malnutrition |
| | The environment of severely malnourished children |
| | Case control studies of survivors of early childhood severe malnutrition |
| | Interpretation of findings |
| | Children's response to an improved environment |
| | Malnutrition in an extremely deprived environment |
| | Malnutrition independent of poor social circumstances |
| | Interactions between severe malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies |
| | The mechanisms |
| | Literature cited |
| | Malnutrition and cognitive development: evidence from experimental/quasi-experimental studies among the mild-to-moderately malnourished1 |
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| | Specificity of effects |
| | Critical periods |
| | Differential responsivity |
| | Nutrients |
| | Mechanisms |
| | Avenues for future research |
| | Policy implications |
| | Literature cited |
| | Relation of mild-to-moderate malnutrition to human development: correlational studies1 |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Anthropometry studies |
| | Direct assessment of food intake |
| | Future directions |
| | Literature cited |
| | Malnutrition and behavioral development: the nutrition variable1 |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Diagnosing malnutrition and identifying populations at risk |
| | Associations and interactions among dietary components |
| | Acknowledgment |
| | Literature cited |
| | Developmental zinc deficiency and behavior1,2 |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Identifying and characterizing zinc deficiency |
| | Zinc deficiency and altered food intake |
| | Critical periods or behavioral teratology experiments in animals |
| | Concurrent experiments in animals |
| | Developmental/concurrent studies in monkeys |
| | Studies in humans |
| | Mechanisms of zinc deprivation effects on behavior |
| | Caveats for integrating conclusions from animal and human studies |
| | Acknowledgments |
| | Literature cited |
| | Functional significance of the covariance between protein energy malnutrition and iron deficiency anemia1 |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Epidemiological characteristics |
| | Iron and development |
| | Weaknesses in design |
| | Literature cited |
| | Human milk and breast feeding for optimal mental development1 |
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| | Essential fatty acids and brain development: docosahexaenoic acid |
| | Mental development in breast-fed infants |
| | Literature cited |
| | Policy implications of new scientific knowledge1 |
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| | Literature cited |
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