Meta - analysis revealed no significant differences between LCPUFA and placebo groups in BSID Mental Developmental Index (MDI) scores at 18 months (MD 0.06, 95 % CI -2.01 to 2.14; I2 = 75 %; four trials; N = 661) and no significant differences in BSID
Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) scores at 18 months (MD 0.69, 95 % CI -0.78 to 2.16; I2 = 61 %; four trials; N = 661).
In conclusion, in this population, prenatal exposure to p, p ′ DDE was associated with a delay in the mental and
psychomotor development at the age of 1 year.
The new formula has been rejiggered to improve fat and calcium absorption, to include nucleotides, which are the building blocks of DNA and RNA, and to have a fat content, while not the same as breast milk, that resulted in visual, mental and
psychomotor development comparable to breast - fed infants.
The study uses data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study to investigate the effect of paracetamol during pregnancy
on psychomotor development, behaviour and temperament at 3 years of age.
By age 3, the study found children from disadvantaged backgrounds had cognitive and
psychomotor development scores «statistically indistinguishable» from children in the study who were in high - resource families.
Social support and home visiting interventions have been successful in improving depressed mothers» moods and attitudes [71], [72], as well as their infants» attachment security and psychomotor development [46], [73].
Although the scores on the Bayley Mental Development indexes were similar in both groups of children (aged six to 40 months), children exposed to SSRIs scored lower on the
Bailey Psychomotor Development indexes and the motor quality factors of the Bailey Behavioural Rating Scale [61].
Tamura, T., Goldenberg, R. L., Ramey, S. L., Nelson, K. G., and Chapman, V. R. Effect of zinc supplementation of pregnant women on the mental and
psychomotor development of their children at 5 y of age.
However, the old adage «breast is best» proved true in this study — the breastfed babies scored slightly higher in their cognitive and
psychomotor development than the babies fed either type of formula.
p, p ′ DDE cord serum levels were negatively associated with both mental and
psychomotor development.
It is very unlikely that this amount of alcohol will affect the baby, and when the same scientists repeated their experiment a year later, they found no link between alcohol consumption and
psychomotor development.
At age 13 months, a psychometrist assessed the children's mental and
psychomotor development, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID), 23 while the mothers completed the Home Screening Questionnaire (HSQ).24
Children with CAMT can also have central nervous system abnormalities, retardation of
psychomotor development, cardiac defects, and other rare malformations.
Secondary outcomes were other child development markers such as cognitive development, language / communication,
psychomotor development, parent sensitivity and attachment classification.
Excess iodine intake in the mother may block thyroid function in the fetus, leading to hypothyroidism and goitre, and is associated with poorer mental and
psychomotor development or behaviour problems in children.22 56 64 However, the risk for adverse effects of iodine supplementation is higher in cases of preconception ID due to sudden increase of iodine intake, and should therefore not be the case in Sweden where the normal population is iodine sufficient.65
Cognition measured by IQ at 3.5 years (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - IV32) and at 14 years (WISC - V31 or an equivalent adequate version at the time) are secondary outcomes, together with outcomes related to
psychomotor development, behaviour and ADHD.