Introduction: Brain and placenta, birth and behavior, health and disease

Birth, Distress and Disease: Placental-Brain Interactions

Volumn 9780521831482, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-15

  Power, Michael L ^a,b   Schulkin, Jay ^b,c,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 84857118734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511545658.002     Document Type: Editorial

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