Aberrant Development in Infancy: Human and Animal Studies

ISBN-13: 9780815347507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 294 str.

Opis

Originally published in 1975, this volume deals with animals and human infants. The chapters reflect a mixture of issues and problems ranging from the significance of sucking responses in the newborn, the development of memory, effects of rearing conditions in monkeys, and brain damage in animals, to processes underlying abnormal development of language. While it appears the issues are diverse, there is actually a common theme. One question is posed: How and why does normal development fail to occur in some human infants? The chapters show that there are many causes of aberrations: physical or psychological trauma, disease, inheritance, and drugs. Although one may be primary, "multiple causation" would still appear to be a sound principle in developmental pathology.

Spis treści

Preface 1. The Myth of Recovery from Early Brain Damage  2. Functional Adaptation after Brain Injury and Malformation in Early Life in Rats  3. Social Responses to Blind Infant Monkeys  4. Vulnerability for Abnormal Development: Pregnancy Outcomes and Sex Differences in Macaque Monkeys  5. An Animal Model for the Small-for-Gestational-Age Infant: Some Behavioral and Morphological Findings  6. Behavioral Development Viewed in Terms of Conspecific Communication  7. Paradoxical Effects of Amphetamine on Behavioral Arousal in Neonatal and Adult Rats: A Possible Animal Model of the Calming Effect of Amphetamine on Hyperkinetic Children  8. The Concept of a Cumulative Risk Score for Infants  9. Early Development of Sleeping Behaviors in Infants  10. Correlations between Scores on the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale, Measures of Newborn Sucking Behavior, and Birthweight in Infants born to Narcotic Addiced Mothers  11. Development of Fine Motor Behaviors: Issues and Research  12. Behavioral Effects from Antenatal Exposure to Teratogens  13. Morphological and Behavioral Consequences of Chemically Induced Lesions of the CNS  14. Critical Periods in Fetal Development: Differential Effects on Learning and Development Produced by Maternal Vitamin A Excess  15. Infant Recognition Memory as a Present and Future Index of Cognitive Abilities  16. Infant Visual Memory: A Backward Look into the Future  17. Infant Habituation: Process, Problems and Possibilities  18. Process Defects That Might Underlie Aberrant Language Development  19. Overview and Synthesis  20. Comments on the Strategies of Studying Early Development in Relation to Intelligence  21. Aberrant Development in Infancy: Overview and Synthesis  22. Conference Comments. Author Index.

O autorze

Norman R. Ellis