Nutrition and Mental Functions
The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien cies was equally oversimplified. Obviously, a disease like rickets, which affected hard tissues--the skeleton- had irreversible consequences. Destruction or alteration of tissues, such as in cancrum or
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ADVANCES IN BEHAVIORAL BIOLOGY Editorial Board: Jan Bures Irwin Kopin Bruce McEwen James McGaugh Karl Pribram Jay Rosenblatt Lawrence Weiskrantz
Institute of Physiology, Prague, Czechoslovakia National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland Rockefeller University, New York, New York University of California, Irvine, California Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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PERSPECTIVES IN PRIMATE BIOLOGY Edited by A. B. Chiarelli· 1974
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NUTRITION AND MENTAL FUNCTIONS Edited by
GEORGE SERBAN New York University Medical Center New York, New York
Foreword by Jean Mayer Harvard School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Nutrition and mental functions. (Advances in behavioral biology; v. 141 Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Nutrition disorders in children-Congresses. 2. Intellect-Nutritional aspectsCongresses. I. Serban, George, 1926ed. II. Kittay Scientific Foundation. [DNLM: 1. Mental processes-Congresses. 2. Nutrition-Congresses. 3. Nutrition disorders-Complications-Congresses. W3 AD215 v. 14 1973/ QU145 N971 1973] RJ399.N8N87 618.9'23'9 74-28371 ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-3077-6 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-3075-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4684-3075-2
Proceedings of a symposium of The Kittay Scientific Foundation held March 29-30, 1973 Manuscripts prepared by Arlyne Zimmermann, Director of Communications, Kittay Scientific Foundation
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