The placenta and neurodisability
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The placenta and neurodisability
(Clinics in developmental medicine)
Mac Keith Press, 2015
2nd ed
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive and authoritative book discusses the critical role of the utero-placenta in neurodisability, both at term and preterm. It examines aspects of fetal compromise and possible cerebro-protective interventions, recent evidence on fetal growth and mental illness, as well as cerebro-therapeutics. Throughout the book, information from the basic sciences placed within the clinical context.
Written by leading obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians and pathologists.
Discusses the role of placenta in the pathophysiology of CNS
Examines recent evidence of endocrine, haematological and inflammatory origins of utero-placental dysfunction
Reviews latest advances in antepartum and perinatal imaging
Table of Contents
1. Placental pathology and perinatal brain injury
Raymond Redline
2. Abnormal Placental Phenotypes
Colin Sibley and Michelle Desforges
3. Aberrant placental endocrinology, fetal growth and neurodevelopment
Jayne Charnoc and Melissa Westwood
4. The rheology of utero-placental and feto-placental blood flow
Ian Crocker
5. Inflammation and Placentation
Karen Racicot and Gil Mor
6. Infections and the fetal inflammatory response
Donald Peebles and Catherine James
7. Cerebral ischaemia and white matter injury
Suresh Victor and Michael Weindling
8. In utero imaging of the human placenta
Emma Ingram and Ed Johnstone
9. Cerebral Function and Fetal Growth Restriction
Irene Cetin and Valentina Brusati
10. Placental programming and mental illness: fetal growth and schizophrenia
Kathryn Abel and Martin Allin
11. Cerebro-therapeutics
Philip Steer
12. Summing up and unsolved problems
Karin Nelson
by "Nielsen BookData"