Fetal Development: Research on Brain and Behavior, Environmental Influences, and Emerging Technologi

Part I: Brain-Behavior Development.- Animal Models.- 1. Using an Animal Model to Explore the Prenatal Origins of Social Development ; Robert Lickliter and Lorraine E. Bahrick.- 2. Fetal and Birth Experiences: Proximate Effects, Developmental Consequences, Epigenetic Legacies; April E. Ronca and Jeffrey R. Alberts.- 3. Yoke Motor Learning in the Fetal Rat: A Model System for Prenatal Behavioral Development; Scott R. Robinson.- 4. Fetal Behavioral Development and Brain Growth in Chimpanzees versus Humans: A View from Studies with 4D Ultrasonography; Hideko Takeshita, Satoshi Hirata, Tomoko Sakai, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi.- Human Fetuses.- 5. Fetal Behavior: Clinical and Experimental Research in the Human; Eduard J.H. Mulder and Gerard H.A. Visser.- 6. Fetal Behavioral and Psychoneurological Development; Jan G. Nijhuis.- 7. Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Fetal Heart Rate Variability; Hernâni Gonçalves, Diogo Ayres-de-Campos, João Bernardes.- 8. Fetal Auditory Processing: Implications for Language Development?; Barbara S. Kisilevsky.- 9. The Fetal Observable Movement System (FOMS); Nadja Reissland, Brian Francis, Louisa Buttanshaw.- 10. Assessment of the Fetal Neuromotor Development with New KANET Test; Aida Salihagic Kadic, Milan Stanojevic, Maja Predojevic, Borna Poljak, Barbara Grubisic-Cabo, Asim Kurjak.- 11. The Potential Value of Habituation in the Fetus; Leo R. Leader.- Part II: Environmental Influences on Development.- Maternal Emotions.- 12. Maternal Anxiety, Depression and Stress during Pregnancy: Effects on the Fetus and the Child, and Underlying Mechanisms; Vivette Glover, Yousra Ahmed-Salim, Lauren Capron.- 13. Neurobehavioral Consequences of Fetal Exposure to Gestational Stress; Curt A. Sandman, Laura M. Glynn, Elysia Poggi Davis.- 14. Maternal Anxiety, Mindfulness and Heart Rate Variability during Pregnancy Influence Fetal and Infant Development; Bea R.H. Van den Bergh.- Iron Deficiency, Alcohol Consumption, SSRI Exposure.- 15. Long-term Brain and Behavioral Consequences of Early-life Iron Deficiency; Bruce C. Kennedy, Diana J. Wallin, Phu V. Tran, Michael K. Georgieff.- 16. Observing the Fetus' Behavior to Assess Health: The Behavior of the Human Fetus in Response to Maternal Alcohol Consumption; Peter G. Hepper.- 17. The Effects of Alcohol Exposure on Fetal Development; Christine C. Dobson, Parker J. Holman, Wendy Comeau, Tamara Bodnar, Vivian Lam, James F. Brien, James N. Reynolds, Joanne Weinberg.- 18. Fetal Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRIs) Antidepressant Exposure; Gillian Hanley, Kaia Hookenson, Dan Rurak, Tim F. Oberlander.- Part III: New Imaging Technologies.- 19. HDlive in the Assessment of Twin Pregnancy; Toshiyuki Hata, Kenji Kanenishi, Uiko Hanaoka, Rina Uematsu, Genzo Marumo.- 20. In Vivo Human Fetal Brain Analysis Using MR Imaging; François Rousseau, Colin Studholme, Renaud Jardri, Moriah E. Thomason.- 21. Functional Imaging of the Prenatal Brain; Veronika Schöpf, Georg Langs, Andras Jakab.- 22. Assessing Functional Brain Development in the Uterus and Fetal Magnetoencephalography; Jana Muenssinger and Hubert Preissl.- 23. Fetal Assessment Using Biomagnetometry: Neurobehaviors, Cardiac Autonomic Control and Research Applications; Kathleen M. Gustafson and Elena Anda Popescu.- Afterword.- Index.