Children with limited resources not only have growth and nutrition problems, their brain is also affected!
Poverty and lack of resources carry countless problems such as malnutrition and poor growth. In fact, in one of the latest studies on this, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Bangladesh, it explains that around 40% of children have a delay in their growth.
But now, thanks to a new study by researcher Shahria Hafiz Kakon, from the International Center for Research in Diarrheal Diseases in Dhaka, and pediatric neuroscientist Charles Nelson, among other collaborators , where they analyzed brain images of children affected by this problem of increase.
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests on about 130 36-month-old infants using Near Infrared Functional Spectroscopy (fNIRs) tests, they detected distinct patterns in brain activity in those suffering from stunted growth and other adversities.
In addition to malnutrition, the study comments that in addition to intestinal pathogen infections and mothers with high rates of depression, they are factors that influence the poor cognitive development of these children.