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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

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ISBN13:9781909962538
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:176

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<p>1. Placental pathology and perinatal brain injury<br />Raymond Redline</p>
<p>2. Abnormal Placental Phenotypes<br />Colin Sibley and Michelle Desforges</p>
<p>3. Aberrant placental endocrinology, fetal growth and neurodevelopment<br />Jayne Charnoc and&nbsp; Melissa Westwood</p>
<p>4. The rheology of utero–placental and feto–placental blood flow<br />Ian Crocker</p>
<p>5. Inflammation and Placentation<br />Karen Racicot and Gil Mor</p>
<p>6. Infections and the fetal inflammatory response<br />Donald Peebles and Catherine James</p>
<p>7. Cerebral ischaemia and white matter injury<br />Suresh Victor and&nbsp; Michael Weindling</p>
<p>8. In utero imaging of the human placenta<br />Emma Ingram and Ed Johnstone</p>
<p>9. Cerebral Function and Fetal Growth Restriction<br />Irene Cetin and Valentina Brusati</p>
<p>10. Placental programming and mental illness: fetal growth and schizophrenia<br />Kathryn Abel and Martin Allin</p>
<p>11. Cerebro–therapeutics<br />Philip Steer</p>
<p>12. Summing up and unsolved problems<br />Karin Nelson</p>

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