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The Fetal and Young Child Nervous System: The Story of the Development and Maldevelopment of the Brain

Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Professor
Departments of Pediatrics, Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Neurology

Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

The University of Iowa

Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
First Published: January 1999
Last Revised: August 2002

Table of Contents

Skull X-Ray

  1. Germ Layers
  2. Brain Development: Embryogenesis (Formation of Embryo)
  3. Malformations of Neural Tube Defects
  4. Brain Development: Histogenesis
  5. Malformations of Histogenesis
  6. Causes of Brain Malformations
  7. Prenatal Brain Performance
  8. Postnatal Brain Development
  9. Structural - Functional Correlation
  10. Lessons Learned from Functional Imaging
  11. Windows of Opportunity

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