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Nutritional Deficiencies and Children's Behaviour and Mental Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2007

Donald T. Simeon  and
Sally M. Grantham-McGregor
Donald T. Simeon
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, St Andrew, Jamaica
Sally M. Grantham-McGregor
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, St Andrew, Jamaica
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Nutrition Research Reviews , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 1 - 24
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