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Assessment of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid nutritional supplementation on infant neurobehavioral development and visual acuity

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The aims of this paper are (i) to consider how best to examine effects of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid nutritional supplementation or deficiency on infant neurobehavioral development, after controlling for other factors that might influence outcome, including maternal demographic, intellectual, and personality characteristics, and (ii) to present new findings on the relation between visual acuity and processing speed and the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and visual acuity on infant information processing. The following topics are also addressed: (i) breastfeeding and intelligence, (ii) criteria for the selection and control of potential confounding variables, and (iii) new infant information processing measures.

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Abbreviations

AA/d:

absolute alcohol per day

FTII:

Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence

GA:

gestational age

HOME:

Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment

LCPUFA:

long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid

MDI:

Mental Development Index

PCBs:

polychlorinated biphenyls

PDI:

Psychomotor Development Index

PPVT-R:

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised

RT:

reaction time

SES:

socroeconomic status

VexP:

Visual Expectancy Paradigm

WISC-III:

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III

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Jacobson, S.W. Assessment of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid nutritional supplementation on infant neurobehavioral development and visual acuity. Lipids 34, 151–160 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-999-0349-9

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