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"Malnutrition is a rnultifaceted biological stress. Here we shall be concerned with thebehavioral effects of prolonged inadequacy of food intake, not of the deficits of specificnutrients (such as iron, iodine or sorne ofthe vitamins). Motor and intellective functionsas well as personality rnay be affected. Research performed during the first part ofthe 20thcentury will be considered briefly, beginning with an experimental study on adults carriedout in Boston in 191711918. Extensive experimental studies were undertaken at theUniversity of Minnesota in the 194Os. In the second half of the century research, utilizingc1inical observations as well as psychornetric rnethods, was focused on rnalnutrition inchildren, mostly in Latin America. US scientists shared in these investigations both asindividuals and as rnembers of research tearns. Sorne of the work performed by nativeinvestigators received US financial support. Studies carried out in the USA areconsideredin the final section of the report"
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