Malnutrition, central nervous system maturation and neuropsychiatric disease
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Malnutrition, Biological psychiatry, Central nervous systemAbstract
Nutrition has a profound impact on the development of cerebral structures and functions. Over and above the metabolic programming induced by fetal malnutrition in order to increase the chances of survival of the fetus in post-natal life, studies point to pre-natal nutritional deficiency as a risk factor for the development of neuropsychiatric diseases. The present review aims to consider aspects of malnutrition in relation to cerebral development, the temporal and functional extension of its impact, as well as establishing correlations with neuropsychiatric diseases, considering articles of periodicals enlisted by Medline from 1962 to 2005. Events arising from early malnutrition display, for the most part, a permanent character to some degree, if not immediate, prospective and compromising of biochemical, physiological and behavioral performance. Despite the apparent delays in the development of neurological parameters, these do not represent mere isolated functional errors, as the ideal inter-relations and connections are influenced, extending the temporal errors of the occurrence of events. The impression of the mark of malnutrition at the level of the genetic code, in extending the horizon of the effects of malnutrition to a multigenerational level, amplifies its effects. Aspects characterized as compensatory mechanisms, while, on the one hand they display an ability to adapt to severe
early stress, on the other they may be compromised in the eventuality of additional environmental or emotional stress. Concern with regard to the subliminal or expressive effects of neuropsychiatric diseases on the quality of life consolidate the importance of the development of research aimed at understanding and elucidating the impacts and mechanisms that modulate the effects of malnutrition on neurodevelopment.
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