title: [Hunger and intellectual development].
abstract: Severe hunger in infancy and early childhood is associated with reduced head size, reduction in cell number and impaired chemical composition of the brain. Intellectual deficits correlating with malnutrition persist into later life. Because malnutrition and poor socio-economic conditions often exist together the additional unfavorable influence or lack of environmental stimuli on intellectual development has to be taken in account.
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Hunger und Intelligenzentwicklung.