Fetal Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development: Second Edition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 9-32

  deRegnier, Raye Ann ^a   Desai, Shivani ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH); As the weeks of gestation were a "black box"; Corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH); Effect of drugs, medications, and toxins on brain development; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Event related potentials (EPs and ERPs); Formation and differentiation of the neural tube; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Olfactory bulbs (for smell) and major parts of the brain; Specific brain functions come "on line" at different points of development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886041260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327588.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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