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Nutrition and Mental Functions

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  • © 1975

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Editors:
  1. George Serban

    1. New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology (ABBI, volume 14)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Welcoming Address

    1. Welcoming Address

      • Sol Kittay
      Pages 1-2

  3. Introductory Remarks

    1. Introductory Remarks

      • George Serban
      Pages 3-4

  4. Introductory Remarks

    1. Introductory Remarks

      • Morris Herman
      Pages 5-6

  5. Biophysiological Aspects of Animal and Human Brain Growth as Related to Malnutrition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Introduction

      • Carl Pfaffmann
      Pages 9-11

    3. Long Continued Marginal Protein-Energy Deficiency

      • R. J. C. Stewart
      Pages 13-31

    4. Behavioral Deficiencies in Protein-Deprived Monkeys

      • Robert R. Zimmermann, Charles R. Geist, David A. Strobel
      Pages 33-64

    5. Nutrition and Brain Development

      • Myron Winick
      Pages 65-73

    6. Malnutrition and Animal Models of Cognitive Development

      • David A. Levitsky
      Pages 75-89

    7. Interactive Effects of Variable Population Density and Dietary Protein Sufficiency upon Selected Morphological, Neurochemical, and Behavioral Attributes in the Rat

      • Robert W. Bell
      Pages 91-97

    8. Protein Malnutrition and Complex Learning in the Chicken

      • George Collier, Robert L. Squibb, Paul Hamlin
      Pages 99-112

    9. Learning in Chronically Protein-Deprived Rats

      • Gerald Turkewitz
      Pages 113-120

    10. Concluding Remarks

      • Myron Winick
      Pages 121-124

  6. Clinical and Follow-up Studies Related to Mental Functioning of Malnourished Children

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Social Antecedents and Correlates of Preschool Malnutrition in Cambridge, Massachusetts

      • Ernesto Pollitt, Eleanor Paradise
      Pages 127-142

    3. Longitudinal Study of Language Development in Severely Malnourished Children

      • Joaquín Cravioto, Elsa DeLicardie
      Pages 143-191

    4. Nutrition, Environment, and Child Behavior

      • Merrill S. Read
      Pages 193-197

  7. The Biochemical Aspects of Nutrition as Related to Mental Illness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Introduction

      • Loren R. Mosher
      Pages 201-203
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The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien­ cies was equally oversimplified. Obviously, a disease like rickets, which affected hard tissues--the skeleton-­ had irreversible consequences. Destruction or alteration of tissues, such as in cancrum oris or severe xerophthal­ mia, was equally permanent and easily observed. Other models were beriberi or scurvy, where, by contrast, the vitamin treatment seemed to restore the individual to the completely normal status quo ante. Most nutritionists were therefore little prepared intellectually for the series of suggestive findings con­ cerning nutrition and mental development which has been the highlight of nutritional research in the past decade: the discovery that there are irreversible gaps in mental development not correlated with obvious permanent somatic lesions which follow acute malnutrition during the develop­ ment of the young infant. Furthermore, not only are ex­ isting somatic instruments--physical examination, the scale, and the measuring tape--inadequate to detect such intellectual and behavioral deficits, but some of the current psychological instruments, bound to traditions of Western culture, are often poorly adapted to measure fine differences in psychological development among poor populations. These initial discoveries have stimulated important methodological advances, ranging from better staining techniques for the study of fibers connecting brain neurons to better tests for the study of cognitive development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • New York University Medical Center, New York, USA

    George Serban

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nutrition and Mental Functions

  • Editors: George Serban

  • Series Title: Advances in Behavioral Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3075-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-3077-6Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-3075-2Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0099-6246

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 281

  • Topics: Nutrition

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