Iodine and the Brain (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda on March 21-23. 1988. jointly sponsored by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. Several themes converged to make this meeting timely. The first is an increasing awareness of iodine deficiency disorders as a world-wide problem of public health and a preventable cause of mental deficiency. and as a subject of scientific effort. Increased interest in these problems owes a great deal to accessibility to remote and under developed areas of the world where iodine deficiency persists. As with any subject. greater scrutiny yields unexpected complexity and interest. It is true that provision of iodine. typically as iodized salt, is the necessary and sufficient preventative for iodine deficiency disorders. without including endemic cretinism. This provision is a governmental, economic and social problem. Apart from this, however, the scientific and medical problem of iodine deficiency and its effect on brain development and function is one of great interest and importance for developmental neurology and psychology. Even though the specific preventative agent is known, we do not totally understand the neurobiological questions raised."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	1989
Authors:	G. Robert DeLong • Jacob Robbins • Peter G. Condliffe
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-8071-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN:	1-4612-8071-0
Barcode:	9781461280712

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