Joffe / Eysenck Prenatal Determinants of Behaviour

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-4560-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Web PDF

Prenatal Determinants of Behavior describes the methods of research on events in the maternal environment during gestation affecting the postnatal behavior of offspring by altering the intra-uterine environment of the fetus. This book is composed of 11 chapters that focus on methods of investigation rather than on substantive findings in the belief that progress in explaining behavior depends on researchers recognizing in the way in which they design experiments that behavior is determined by a multitude of complexly interacting events. After a brief introduction to the aspects of pregnancy, this book goes on examining the role of maternal influences and environmental factors, such as irradiation, drugs, hormone, and nutrition, on postnatal offspring behavior. The discussion then shifts to methods of altering the emotional state of a mother that affect her physiological condition indirectly. Other chapters survey the principles and experimentation of the genotype-environment interaction and its influence of offspring behavior. The last chapters deal with human studies concerning the influence of a variety of prenatal variable on the growth, health, and behavior of human offspring, including smoking, maternal environment, nutrition, diseases, X-rays, drugs, and stress. This book will be of great value to psychiatrists and medical professionals and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joffe, J. M.

Eysenck, H. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Prenatal Determinants of Behaviour;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Dedication;6
6;PREFACE;10
7;EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION;12
8;CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION;14
9;CHAPTER 2. MATERNAL INFLUENCES;22
9.1;POSTNATAL VARIABLES;23
9.2;PRENATAL EFFECTS;39
9.3;CONCLUSIONS;46
10;CHAPTER 3. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS: I. IRRADIATION;48
10.1;MATERNAL EFFECTS;50
10.2;EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOUR;56
10.3;CONCLUSIONS;71
11;CHAPTER 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS: II. DRUGS;74
11.1;TERATOLOGY;75
11.2;BEHAVIOUR;79
11.3;CONCLUSIONS;107
12;CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS: III. HORMONES AND NUTRITION;108
12.1;GONADAL HORMONES;109
12.2;ADRENAL HORMONES;121
13;CHAPTER 6. PRENATAL MATERNAL STRESS;140
13.1;OXYGEN DEPRIVATION;142
13.2;STRESS;146
13.3;CONCLUSIONS;166
14;CHAPTER 7. GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION: I. INTRODUCTION;167
14.1;MATERNAL AND FOETAL GENOTYPES;175
15;CHAPTER 8. GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION: II. AN EXPERIMENT ON THE INTERACTION OF PRENATAL AND PREMATING STRESS WITH MATERNAL AND FOETAL GENOTYPES;184
15.1;SUMMARY;234
15.2;GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS;236
15.3;CONCLUSIONS;243
16;CHAPTER 9. STUDIES OF HUMANS: I. METHODOLOGY AND MATERNAL SMOKING AND COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY;245
16.1;SMOKING;251
16.2;COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY, ANOXIA, AND PREMATURITY;256
16.3;GENERAL;281
17;CHAPTER 10. STUDIES OF HUMANS: II. MATERNAL ENVIRONMENT, NUTRITION, DISEASES, X-RAYS, AND DRUGS;282
17.1;NUTRITION;299
17.2;DISEASES;301
17.3;X-RAYS;303
17.4;DRUGS;304
18;CHAPTER 11. STUDIES OF HUMANS: III. MATERNAL EMOTIONS;307
18.1;EMOTIONAL STATES AND REPRODUCTIVE PROBLEMS;308
18.2;MATERNAL EMOTIONS AND FOETAL AND INFANT BEHAVIOUR;312
18.3;CONCLUSIONS;322
19;REFERENCES;324
20;NAME INDEX;346
21;SUBJECT INDEX;354