The effect of mothers' diets on the intelligence of offspring: A study of the influence of vitamin supplementation of the diets of pregnant and lactating women on the intelligence of their children.

Harrell, Ruth F.; Woodyard, Ella; Gates, Arthur I.

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“…This would be expected also in the human in view of the rapid brain growth during the late prenatal period with a strong want for protein, for exam ple, an intense cellular proliferation and a subsequent deposition of mye lin occurring in part prenatally. Studies on infants of mothers in poor socio-economic conditions and the effect of substitutional therapy [19] lend support to this idea. This period as well as the early neonatal is thus 'critical' when the brain is vulnerable at a number of points.…”

Section: Malnourishmentmentioning

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Perinatal Encephalopathies Caused by Maternal Diseases during Pregnancy

Brun¹

1972

Eur Neurol

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The most important perinatal encephalopathies, which are caused by diseases of the mother during pregnancy, comprise brain damage due to malnourishment and some inherited metabolic diseases, dysthyroidism and diabetes, infectious diseases, hypoxic circulatory disturbances and kernicterus. Besides the brain alterations directly caused by these conditions, changes of a secondary nature are discussed. These are mainly due to curtailed or perverted maturational and late developmental processes. The end-result thus will be a complex of primary and secondary changes and the type and distribution of alterations are dependent not only upon the nature of the harmful factor but also on the time of its operation.

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Section: Malnourishmentmentioning

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Perinatal Encephalopathies Caused by Maternal Diseases during Pregnancy

Brun¹

1972

Eur Neurol

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“…The taking of folic acid by a mother in the early stages of pregnancy is associated with a decreased risk of neural tube defects (MRC Vitamin Study Research Group 1991). Harrell et al (1956) found that the taking of vitamin supplements by mothers during the latter part of pregnancy was associated with higher intelligence scores at ages 3 and 4 years in one sample but not in another. They suggested that the response to supplementation reflected the poorer diet of the mothers whose children responded.…”

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Vitamin-mineral supplements and intelligence

Benton

1992

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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“…Curiously, Vitamin A, protein, phosphorus, or iron deficiencies during this period result in no observable learning deficit (Bernhardl: 1936a(Bernhardl: , 1936b(Bernhardl: , 1936c. That vitamin levels of the fetus may affect postnatal learning ability and intelligence has been suggested by the works of Whitlcy, O 'Dell, and Hogan (1951) and Harrell, Woodyard, and Gates (1956).The work reported herein is unique in that for the first time, to the author's knowledge, a vitamin and mineral deficiency has been restricted to a specific interval in the prenatal period and the intelligence of the offspring tested after a normal weaning period.…”

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Maternal nutritional deficiency and intelligence of the offspring (thiamine and iron).

Em¹

1959

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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Animals being maintained on an inadequate diet demonstrate more efficient maze performance than do the control animals (Anderson & Smith, 1926;Griffiths & Senter, 1954). When B-complex vitamins, thiamine, or ribotlavin are withheld during the nursing period only, and the animals tested after weaning on an adequate diet, there is a significant diminution in maze performance (Maurer: 1935a(Maurer: , 1935b. A positive correlation between thiamine concentration in the diet of very young rats and subsequent learning ability has been clearly established by O'Neill (1949). Curiously, Vitamin A, protein, phosphorus, or iron deficiencies during this period result in no observable learning deficit (Bernhardl: 1936a(Bernhardl: , 1936b(Bernhardl: , 1936c. That vitamin levels of the fetus may affect postnatal learning ability and intelligence has been suggested by the works of Whitlcy, O 'Dell, and Hogan (1951) and Harrell, Woodyard, and Gates (1956).The work reported herein is unique in that for the first time, to the author's knowledge, a vitamin and mineral deficiency has been restricted to a specific interval in the prenatal period and the intelligence of the offspring tested after a normal weaning period. METHOD SubjectsThe iVs were white rats of the Charles River Laboratories strain. The females were virgins weighing between 200 and 250 gm.

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The effect of mothers' diets on the intelligence of offspring: A study of the influence of vitamin supplementation of the diets of pregnant and lactating women on the intelligence of their children.

Cited by 6 publications

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Perinatal Encephalopathies Caused by Maternal Diseases during Pregnancy

Perinatal Encephalopathies Caused by Maternal Diseases during Pregnancy

Vitamin-mineral supplements and intelligence

Maternal nutritional deficiency and intelligence of the offspring (thiamine and iron).

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