Brain, Behaviour, and Iron in the Infant Diet

✍ Scribed by John Dobbing (auth.), John Dobbing DSc, FRCP, FRCPath (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 1990
Tongue: English
Leaves: 203
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 comments critically on each of the other eight chapters, so that the book is very extensively peer-reviewed. The evidence is set out so that the reader may make his own informed judgement. Iron deficiency could very easily be prevented; this fact is of prime importance if such deficiency has long-lasting effects on human intellectual capacity and achievement.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Vulnerable Periods in Developing Brain....Pages 1-17
Commentary....Pages 17-25
The Epidemiology of Childhood Iron Deficiency: Evidence for Improving Iron Nutrition among US Children....Pages 27-39
Commentary....Pages 40-42
Importance of Fetal and Neonatal Iron: Adequacy for Normal Development of Central Nervous System....Pages 43-57
Commentary....Pages 57-62
Neurochemical Basis of Behavioural Effects of Brain Iron Deficiency in Animals....Pages 63-76
Commentary....Pages 76-81
Neuropharmacological and Neurobiochemical Aspects of Iron Deficiency....Pages 83-99
Commentary....Pages 99-106
Has Iron Deficiency Been Shown to Cause Altered Behavior in Infants?....Pages 107-125
Commentary....Pages 125-131
Iron Deficiency and Behaviour in Infancy: A Critical Review....Pages 133-150
Commentary....Pages 150-155
Iron Deficiency and the Brain: Clinical Significance of Behavioural Changes....Pages 157-172
Commentary....Pages 172-176
Prevention of Iron-Deficiency Anemia: Iron Fortification of Infant Foods....Pages 177-187
Commentary....Pages 187-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-195

✦ Subjects

Pediatrics

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