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Brain, behaviour, and iron in the infant diet /

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Iron deficiency in infancy is very widespread, even in developed countries and even when there is no general malnutrition. This book examines the question whether iron deficiency in early life leads to deleterious changes in brain and/or behavioural development. Each of the nine contributors comment...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dobbing, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1990]
Subjects:
Iron deficiency diseases in infants.
Brain > Growth.
Infants > Development.
Brain > drug effects.
Child Behavior > drug effects.
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Iron > deficiency.
Eisenmangel.
Ernährung.
Zentralnervensystem.
Entwicklung.
Kind.
Verhaltensstörung.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Vulnerable periods in developing brain / John Dobbing
  • Epidemiology of childhood iron deficiency: evidence for improving iron nutrition among US children / Ray Yip
  • Importance of fetal and neonatal iron: adequacy for normal development of central nervous system / Edward C. Larkin and G. Ananda Rao
  • Neurochemical basis of behavioural effects of brain iron deficiency in animals / Shlomo Yehuda
  • Neuropharmacological and neurobiochemical aspects of iron deficiency / Moussa B. H. Youdim
  • Has iron deficiency been shown to cause altered behavior in infants? / Betsy Lozoff
  • Iron deficiency and behaviour in infancy: a critical review / Tomas Walter
  • Iron deficiency and the brain: clinical significiance of behavioural changes / Yvonne A. Parks and Brian Wharton
  • Prevention of iron deficiency anemia: iron fortification of infant foods / Howard A. Pearson.