PART I: DEVELOPMENT
Investigating Early Formation Of The Cerebral Cortex by In Utero Electroporation - Methods And Protocols
Peter Kozulin, Gonzalo Almarza, Ilan Gobius, and Linda J. Richards
2. In Utero Electroporation Methods in the Study of Cerebral Cortical Development
Isabel Martínez-Garay, Fernando García-Moreno, Navneet Vasistha, Andre Marques-Smith, and Zoltán Molnár
3. Isolation of GABAergic Cortical Neurons and Implications for Cell Transplantation Strategies in the Nervous System
Hui Xuan Ng and Joanne M. Britto
4. Advanced EEG and MRI Measurements to Study the Functional Development of the Newborn Brain
Sampsa Vanhatolo and Peter Fransson
5. Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements in the Neonatal Brain
Flora Wong
6. Fetal Sleep and Spontaneous Behaviour in Utero: Animal and Clinical Studies
Dan Rurak
7. Circadian Rhythms in the Fetus and Newborn-Significance of Interactions with Maternal Physiology and the Environment
Maria Serron-Ferre, Hans Richter, Dr Claudia Torres-Farfan
PART II: PROGRAMMING and STRESS
8. Prenatal Programming of the Mesolimbic Reward Pathway and Food Preferences
Beverley Muhlhausler and Jessica Gugusheff
9. Perinatal and Postnatal Determinants of Brain Development - Recent Studies and Methodological Advances
Sarah Spencer and Trish Jenkins
10. Models of Perinatal Compromises in the Guinea Pig - Their Use in Showing the Role of Neurosteroids in Pregnancy and the Newborn
Hannah K. Palliser, Greer A. Bennett , Meredith A Kelleher, Angela L. Cumberland, David W. Walker, and Jonathan J. Hirst
11. Placental Transport and Metabolism: Implications for the Developmental Effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) Antidepressants
Juan Velaquez and Alexandre Bonnin
12. Studies on the Effects Prenatal Immune Activation on Postnatal Behaviour - Models of Developmental Origins of Schizophrenia?
Udani Ratnayake and Rachel Hill
PART III: BRAIN DAMAGE - CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES
13. Oligodendrocytes: Cells of Origin for White Matter Injury in the Developing Brain?
Mary Tolcos, David Rowitch, and Justin Dean
14. Prenatal Determinants of Brain Development - Recent Studies and Methodological Advances
Stephen Back and Roger Hohimer
15. Using Pregnant Sheep to Model Developmental Brain Damage
Lotte G. van den Heuij, Guido Wassink, Alistair Jan Gunn, and Laura Bennet
16. A Procedure for Inducing Seizures in the Postnatal Rat
Helena Parkington and Harry Coleman
17. Origin and Detection of Neonatal Seizures - Animal and Clinical Studies
Tracey Bjorkmann
