Iodine and neuropsychological development

From: The Journal of Nutrition | Date: February 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Iodine and Neuropsychological Development1

ABSTRACT The establishment of the essential link among iodine deficiency, thyroid function and brain development has emerged from a fascinating combination of clinical, epidemiologic and experimental studies. The central human phenomenon that focuses this relationship is the condition of endemic cretinism, described from the Middle Ages and characterized in its fully developed form by severe brain damage, deaf mutism and a spastic state of the hands and feet. The demonstration of the prevention of cretinism in a double-blind controlled trial with ...

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