c-section intellectual deficit

[gnos]

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042911

 

this article discusses the developmental problems related to the hippocampus that result from c-section, but doesn't consider remediation possibilities. are there any potential treatment strategies in the foreseeable future? would increasing ucp2 be beneficial?

[CharonY]

I would be careful to extrapolate these studies. First of all we are talking about mice. Perinatal development is quite different to humans, so discussions into that direction are at best premature. It is quite interesting, though and it may be worthwhile to look at it more closely.