Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: brain and placenta, birth and behavior, health and disease
- 1 Placental expression of neurohormones and other neuroactive molecules in human pregnancy
- 2 The regulation of human parturition
- 3 Maternal nutrition and metabolic control of pregnancy
- 4 Fetal HPA activation, preterm birth and postnatal programming
- 5 Prenatal glucocorticoids and the programming of adult disease
- 6 Prenatal stress and stress physiology influences human fetal and infant development
- 7 Glucocorticoids and the ups and downs of neuropeptide gene expression
- 8 Glucocorticoid facilitation of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the placenta and the brain: functional impact on birth and behavior
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: brain and placenta, birth and behavior, health and disease
- 1 Placental expression of neurohormones and other neuroactive molecules in human pregnancy
- 2 The regulation of human parturition
- 3 Maternal nutrition and metabolic control of pregnancy
- 4 Fetal HPA activation, preterm birth and postnatal programming
- 5 Prenatal glucocorticoids and the programming of adult disease
- 6 Prenatal stress and stress physiology influences human fetal and infant development
- 7 Glucocorticoids and the ups and downs of neuropeptide gene expression
- 8 Glucocorticoid facilitation of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the placenta and the brain: functional impact on birth and behavior
- Index
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- Birth, Distress and DiseasePlacental-Brain Interactions, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005