Brain, behaviour, and iron in the infant diet. [Vulnerable periods in developing brain -- The epidemiology of childhood iron deficiency: eveidence for improving iron nutrition among US Children -- Importance of fetal and neonatal iron: Adequacy for normal development of central nervous system -- Neurochemical basis of behavioural effects of brain iron deficiency in animals -- Neuropharmacological and neurobiochemical aspects of iron deficiency -- Has iron deficiency been shown to cause altered behavior in infants? -- Iron deficiency and behavior in infancy: A critical review -- Iron deficiency and the brain: clinical significance of behavioural changes -- Prevention of iron deficiency anemia: iron fortification of infant foods]

London ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1990, 1990. Fine. xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0387196056 (U.S. : alk. paper); 9780387196053 ; LCCN: 90-9577; OCLC: 21147742 ; LC: RJ399.I75; Dewey: 618.92/8; 612.3924; NLM: WS 120 ; blue and white boards ; no dustjacket ; "Iron deficiency in infancy is very widespread, even in developed countries and even when there is no general malnutrition. This book examines the question whether iron deficiency in early life leads to deleterious changes in brain and/or behavioural development. Each of the nine contributors comments critically on each of the other eight chapters, so that the book is very extensively peer-reviewed. The evidence is set out so that the reader may make his own informed judgement. Iron deficiency could very easily be prevented; this fact is of prime importance if such deficiency has long-lasting effects on human intellectual capacity and achievement. " ; Contents: Vulnerable periods in developing brain -- The epidemiology of childhood iron deficiency: eveidence for improving iron nutrition among US Children -- Importance of fetal and neonatal iron: Adequacy for normal development of central nervous system -- Neurochemical basis of behavioural effects of brain iron deficiency in animals -- Neuropharmacological and neurobiochemical aspects of iron deficiency -- Has iron deficiency been shown to cause altered behavior in infants? -- Iron deficiency and behavior in infancy: A critical review -- Iron deficiency and the brain: clinical significance of behavioural changes -- Prevention of iron deficiency anemia: iron fortification of infant foods. ; FINE