Posted by Larry Hoover on November 29, 2002, at 12:56:48
In reply to Re: There was a question hidden above, posted by bubblegumchewer on November 29, 2002, at 12:31:27
> Thanks, and I should not use you as a search engine. I thought I did a search on PubMed a while back but I didn't turn up that article.
My experience is that keyword selection is sometimes ineffective, even if I know that the keywords are in the target paper. Anyway, pica and smell as keywords turned up this paper as the first hit.
Don't worry about "using" me as a search engine. I do searches for a living, and one more is a trivial change in my load.
> I'll do some more research as I'm still curious. It seems like a subject that is poorly understood. It may not be an important subject in the grand scheme of things but I am drawn to mysteries.
I haven't come across an explanation for pica that makes sense to me. Even the link to iron deficiency is spurious. I'm not sure that there is a way to understand the psychological effects of pregancy, having observed a few of them at close quarters. ;-)
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:129239
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