Argues that awareness of neuro-biology is necessary to insure accountability and to remain cognizant of the developing technology in this area, whose impact on the black community is increasing. It is up to the community and to black professionals to insure accountability, since scientists (and certainly those people who utilize this technology)…

Discusses the reciprocal relationship between food and behavior, dealing with the subject as a two-way system; two parts of the brain are particularly involved, the hypothalamus and the cerebral cortex. (Author/JM)

The problems of those children who are chronically malnourished, the cultural environment of malnutrition, and the extent to which children are temporarily or permanently handicapped in learning because of malnutrition are discussed in this booklet. It also describes hunger and its effects on child development. The topics addressed are: definition…