Abstract
Objectives: To find out the effects of poor prenatal nutrition on neurodevelopment in maternal nutrition. Methodology: The study was conducted by testing an effect of prenatal nutrition on neurodevelopment findings by employing anthropoids using controlled –trial conditions. Results: Maternal nutrition restricted offspring had significantly fewer responses;than did control offspring. Conclusions: The study thus indicates that nutritional intervention during pregnancy have been successfully used to target neurodevelopment problems
Key Words: Pre-natal, pregnancy, nutrition, neurodevelopment, psychosocial stressors
Summary
Fetal development is dependent on the nutritional environment among other factors offered by the mother. However, maternal nutrition is affected by numerous factors such as physiological changes of pregnancy. Poor nutrition takes place in the context of psychosocial stressors among other risk factors related to poor developmental results1. This makes research on the consequences of prenatal nutrition on neurodevepment among hominids more demanding. The study was conducted to find out the effects of poor prenatal nutrition on neurodevelopment in humans, which mostly takes place in the presence of psychosocial stressors among other risks. These effects mostly occur in within psychosocial agents among other related risks on poor psychological results. The study was conducted by testing an effect of prenatal nutrition on neurodevelopment findings by employing anthropoids using controlled –trial conditions and in fed ad libitum(control)1. Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery was administered constantly and equally to the controlled and non-controlled groupings, and the hominid activity in relation to perseverance, concentration, and arousal were encrypted from the recordings. The approach was reliably consistent with other approaches previously applied in evaluating personal variation in conduct among school-going children. The study concluded that maternal nutrition restricted offspring had significantly fewer responses; with more inconsistent movement intensity and reduced emotional stimulation than was discovered in the control group. Female offspring under maternal restricted nutrition demonstrate more inconsistent and minor intensities of perseverance and concentration than the females within the control offspring. The study thus indicates that nutritional intervention during pregnancy have been successfully used to target neurodevelopment problems such as increased vitamin Bc intake during gestation period to minimize possible occurrences of neural tube defects. The study can therefore be to support other research on precautions on nutritional interventions for majority of the common childhood behavior problems1.
Reference
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Neurodevelopment of the Offspring: Evidence from a Translational Primate Model. Am. J. ClinNutr. 2013, Vol 98, Issue 2, Pages 396-402. Doi: 10.3945/ajcn.112.040352.