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Wiring the Infant Brain: The Neuroscience of Essential Vitamins

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From a neuroscientific perspective, the infant brain is the body’s most energy-intensive organ, consuming nearly 60% of basal metabolic energy in early life. This extraordinary demand reflects rapid neurogenesis, myelination, synaptogenesis, and pruning—the cellular events that lay the foundations for cognition, emotion regulation, and behavior. While macronutrients provide bulk energy, several vitamins and lipids function as catalysts and structural elements in neural development. Six stand out for their direct neurobiological roles: vitamin D, iron, folate, vitamin B₁₂, choline, and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). This article synthesizes on how each shapes infant brain architecture and function, with direct implications for clinical practice and parental decision-making.

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