Andrew Prentice

Optical Brain Imaging as an Assessment Tool for Nutrition Related Cognitive Development in Rural Gambia: Studies from Birth to 24 Months of Age

Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Drew Halliday, Katarina Begus, Helen Maris, Maria Papademetriou, Nick Everdell, Momodou Darboe, Andrew Prentice, Sophie Moore & Clare Elwell · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Appropriate nutrition in the first 1000 days of life is essential for optimal brain development and function. Neurobehavioral assessments of cognitive function can only detect effects of nutritional deficiencies once they reach the point of observable behaviour, thus...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20952

Hepcidin Screening to Guide Iron Supplementation in African Children

Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Sarah Atkinson, Andrew Armitage, Shivani Khandwala, Jacobien Veenemans, Sharon Cox, Lucy Eddowes, Theodore Hayes, Conor Doherty, Ayse Demir, Edwin Tijhaar, Hans Verhoef, Andrew Prentice & Hal Drakesmith · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Hematologic and non-hematologic benefits from iron supplementation are chiefly seen in iron deficient individuals; concerns that iron might promote infection especially in non-iron deficient individuals have complicated global anemia control policies, particularly in...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20879