This text is a treatise drawing together and critically examining the current explosion of experimental and clinical research on the metabolism, nutrition, pharmacology, toxicology, pathology, neuropsychology, and developmental neurobiology of trace elements.
Copper in the developing brain; biochemical aspects of copper deficiency in the nervous system; iodine deficiency and the role of thyroid hormones in brain development; zinc and the central nervous system; zinc and the hippocampus - histology, neurochemistry, pharmacology, and putative functional relevance; behavioural changes accompanying zinc deficiency in animals; neurochemical aspects of selenium; neuropsychological effects of iron deficiency; the neuropathology of cobalamin deficiency.
