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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."
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