"A tranquil mind puts flesh on a man" English proverb After aperiod
of relative neglect, nutrition as a medical science is now an area
of great clinical and investigative activ ity. This renewed
interest in clinical nutrition derives in large part from
observations suggesting that early nutritional depriva tion not
only interferes with the maintenance of health, growth and
resistance to disease but if present during critical periods of
central nervous system development may also cause permanent
impairment of intellectual capacity. Studies on brain development
during malnutrition have contin ued to demonstrate the
vulnerability of the developing brain to nutritional insult. Winick
(1968) has emphasized that nutritional deficiency occurring while
cells of the central nervous system are actively dividing results
in a permanent decrease in central ner vous system cell number.
Later nutritional deficiency which re sults in decrease in cell
size appears to be recoverable. Perhaps even more important than
effects of malnutrition on brain cell number is the effect on brain
protein synthesis and myelination. As different regions of the
prain grow at different rates and human cerebellar and cerebral
cell number increase for the first few months of life, newborn
nutritional deficiency may compromise brain development. Dobbing
(1973) has focused attention on the vulnerability of the brain to
nutritional insult during the brain growth spurt which occurs
around the time of birth. In the human, this period extends
throughout the third trimester of pregnancy and into the second
postnatal year."
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 46 |
Release date: |
March 2013 |
First published: |
1974 |
Editors: |
Hans Bode
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
307 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4684-3251-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Biology, life sciences >
Biochemistry >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4684-3251-6 |
Barcode: |
9781468432510 |
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