Infant Nutrition and Brain Development

This nutritional intervention study involved assessments in both the mother and her infant. The mother was asked to complete self-report questionnaires and to undergo a brief cognitive assessment. If the mother was not breastfeeding, a study product was provided and was consumed by the infant daily up to 12 months of life. The study also involved magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans of the infant's brain while asleep as well as evaluation of cognitive outcomes, including general cognitive development, and social-emotional development.

Once all trial subjects completed the 6-month timepoint (intervention part), an inferential statistical analysis of all data up to 6 months was performed.

Product codes (blinding) were broken to compare groups and an appropriate operational framework was put in place to maintain the individual assignment unknown to the Sponsor and Sites until the end of the trial.

Inclusion criteria

• Term infants (≥ 37 weeks)
• Neuro typical development
• No major risk factors for learning, neurologic, or psychiatric disorder
• Between 2 weeks and maximum 5 weeks of age. If mother is breastfeeding she can choose the infant begin the trial prior 2 weeks.
• Parents/legal guardians willing and able to complete the informed consent process

Exclusion criteria

• Delayed birth (> 41 weeks gestation)
• Birth Weight < 2000 g or small for gestation age or large for gestational age
• Psychopharmacological treatment of mother using prohibited medications during pregnancy
• In utero exposure to alcohol abuse or illicit substances as per the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Abnormalities on fetal ultrasound
• Complicated pregnancy
• Neonatal intensive care unit admission and/or emergency surgical delivery