Malnutrition and Brain Development

Malnutrition and brain development.

2. During a Journal Club meeting while I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University I was asked to discuss a paper by Enesco and Le Blond. This was in 1964, the early days of the DNA revolution. And these authors noted that the amount of DNA in every cell of a particular species was the same. This number was already known in many species—6.2 picagrams of DNA in every rat cell; 6.0 picagra...

Malnutrition and psychological development.

Malnutrition and development among rural and urban school children in southern province of Hormozgan in Iran

The association between chronic severe malnutrition and poor mental development as a social and health problem that may lead to a behavioral dysfunction has been reported in several studies. This study has attempted to investigate the relation between stunted children and cognitive measures (IQ). In this study, 1945 school children (845 urban, 1100 rural) have randomly selected by using variabl...

The Role of Malnutrition during Pregnancy and Its Effects on Brain and Skeletal Muscle Postnatal Development

“Foetal programming” refers to nutritional and hormonal variations during pregnancy. A maternal proper diet has a fundamental role in decreasing pregnancy complications and to prevent possible diseases in postnatal life. In our narrative review, we analyze and discuss the role of malnutrition during pregnancy and its effects on preand postnatal development of embryos. Our review proposes a comp...

Malnutrition and development among rural and urban school children in southern province of Hormozgan in Iran

The association between chronic severe malnutrition and poor mental development as a social and health problem that may lead to a behavioral dysfunction has been reported in several studies. This study has attempted to investigate the relation between stunted children and cognitive measures (IQ). In this study, 1945 school children (845 urban, 1100 rural) have randomly selected by using variabl...