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Workshop: Achieving Developmental Milestone Training (Lagos. May, 2017)
Pediatricians & other healthcare professionals participated in a capacity building workshop hosted...
In March 2017, Wyeth Nutrition, in collaboration with the Nestlé Research Center (NRC) in Lausanne, began a nutritional intervention clinical trial in healthy babies to study the effect of...
Reviewed the cohort study abstract that specific breast milk nutrients may work together to influence cognitive development and possible mechanisms.
Learning Corner
The Nutricious and Delicious Brain
(NEW!) Infancy and early childhood are rapid and sensitive periods of cognitive and behavioral development. This cognitive development is mirrored by the changing brain structure, function, and...
Baby Connectome Project: brain functional maturation
(NEW!) Throughout the process of brain functional maturation, there are both sensitive and critical periods. The sensitive period is a phase when the effects of experience and environment on the...
Promoting Cognitive Development Through Advancing Nutrition
Providing specific quantified health burden estimates of diverse infant feeding practices that can help inform related public health policy.
Academic Activities
Reviewed the association of specific lipids and phospholipids with neurodevelopmental outcomes, and advances and future research in infant nutrition.
Documents
This chapter is intended to provide an overview of some very basic principles of brain development, drawn from contemporary developmental neurobiology.
Studied relation of human milk lutein, choline and DHA with recognition memory. Nutrients Interactions appear important to predict infant cognition.
Resources
USDA United States Department of Agriculture food composition database for more than 8000 foods including all food groups and baby foods as well.
Offers a test menu that accommodates more than 99 percent of pediatric testing requests for the diagnosis and management of Pediatric conditions.