Associations between infant growth and cognitive development: Insights from EEG functional connectivity and power spectral density
Berit Hartjen·Charles A. Nelson·Justin M. O’Sullivan·Garrett Greaves·Navin Rahman·Shahria Kakon·Terrence Forrester·W. Xie·Rashidul Haque·Fahmida Tofail
Malnutrition is a critical global health challenge, contributing to nearly half of child deaths under 5 and impairing physical and mental health, along with neural and cognitive development. Prior research has linked growth faltering to altered EEG functional connectivity (FC) and poorer cognitive outcomes, though findings varied across ages. This study (2022-2024) examined associations between nutritional status (approximated by growth z-scores) and brain development in 12-month-old Bangladeshi