Postnatal Growth Neurobiology

ISBN-13: 9781489905246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 556 str.

Frank Falkner; J. M. Tanner

Opis

It is a source of great satisfaction to us that a Second Edition of this treatise should be called for, especially because it has given us the opportunity to produce, we believe, a better book. Eighteen chapters, amounting to one-third of the whole, are new, and of these, 13 deal with subjects not covered at all in the First Edition. We have paid more attention to embryonic and fetal growth, with chapters on cell differentiation (Lehtonen and Saxen), embryonic growth (O'Rahilly and Muller), control of fetal size (Snow), regulation of fetal growth (D'Ercole and Underwood), and ultrasonic studies offetal growth (Meire). At last the data are available for a chapter on the evolution of the human growth curve, by Eliz- abeth Watts. Large parts of the endocrine section have been rewritten (by Michael Preece, and by William Crowley and Margaret Wierman), and the genetics section has been largely recast, with new contributions by William Mueller and Ronald Wilson. Reynaldo Marto- rell has contributed a new chapter on growth in developing countries, and Tanner discusses growth surveys and standards as well as catch-up growth. Finally, there are two new chap- ters dealing with growth as a monitor of the health of populations-one by Tadeusz Bie- licki, considering the contemporary scene, and the other by Robert Fogel, on the contri- bution that such studies are making to the economic history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Spis treści

I Postnatal Growth.- 1: Somatic Growth of the Infant and Preschool Child.- 2: Bone Growth and Maturation.- 3: Adipose Tissue Growth and Obesity.- 4: Growth of Muscle Tissue and Muscle Mass.- 5: Body Composition and Energy Needs during Growth.- 6: Body Composition in Adolescence.- 7: Physical Activity and Growth of the Child.- 8: Puberty.- 9: Prepubertal and Pubertal Endocrinology.- 10: Neuroendocrine Control of the Onset of Puberty.- 11: Skull, Jaw, and Teeth Growth Patterns.- 12: Dentition.- II Neurobiology.- 13: Neuroembryology and the Development of Perceptual Mechanisms.- 14: The Differentiated Maturation of the Cerebral Cortex.- 15: Neuroanatomical Plasticity: Its Role in Organizing and Reorganizing the Central Nervous System.- 16: Sexual Differentiation of the Brain.- 17: Patterns of Early Neurological Development.- 18: Development of Newborn Behavior.