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Effects of early nutrition on neurological and mental competence in human beings1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Zena Stein  and
Mervyn Susser
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , November 1985 , pp. 717 - 726
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