Birth, Distress and Disease : Placental-Brain Interactions (Hardcover)

Introduction: Brain and Placenta: Birth and Behavior: Health and Disease Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin; 1. Placental expression of neurohormones and other neuroactive molecules in human pregnancy Felice Petraglia, Pasquale Florio and Wylie W. Vale; 2. The regulation of human parturition Roger Smith, Sam Mesiano, Richard Nicholson, Vicki Clifton, Tamas Zakar, Eng-Cheng Chan, Andrew Bisits and Warwick Giles; 3. Maternal nutrition and metabolic control of pregnancy Michael L. Power and Suzette D. Tardif; 4. Fetal HPA activation, preterm birth and postnatal programming Deborah M. Sloboda, John R. G. Challis, Timothy J. M. Moss and John P. Newnham; 5. Prenatal glucocorticoids and the programming of adult disease Jonathan R. Seckl, Amanda J. Drake, Megan C. Holmes; 6. Prenatal stress and stress physiology influences human fetal and infant development Elysia Poggi Davis, Calvin J. Hobel, Curt A. Sandman, Laura Glynn and Pathik D. Wadhwa; 7. Glucocorticoid regulation of neuropeptide gene expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus Alan G. Watts; 8. Glucocorticoid facilitation of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the placenta and the brain: functional impact on birth and behavior Jay Schulkin, Louis Schmidt and Kristine Erickson.