Brain development : normal processes and the effects of alcohol and nicotine / edited by Michael W. Miller.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Miller, Michael W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Models of neurotoxicity provide unique insight into normal development
  • Cell proliferation
  • Neuronal migration
  • Neuronal differentiation : from axons to synapses
  • Cell death
  • Intracellular pathways of neuronal death
  • Developmental disorders and evolutionary expectations : mechanisms of resilience
  • Prenatal alcohol exposure and human development
  • Influence of alcohol on the structure of the developing human brain
  • Prenatal ethanol exposure and fetal programming : implications for endocrine and immune development and long-term health
  • Early exposure to ethanol affects the proliferation of neuronal precursors
  • Effects of ethanol on the regulation of cell cycle in neural stem cells
  • Mechanisms of ethanol-induced alterations in neuronal migration
  • Effects of ethanol on mechanisms regulating neuronal process outgrowth
  • Neuronal survival is compromised by ethanol: extracellular mediators
  • Intracellular events in ethanol-induced neuronal death
  • Neural crest and developmental exposure to ethanol
  • Glial targets of developmental exposure to ethanol
  • Tobacco use during pregnancy : epidemiology and effects on offspring
  • Prenatal nicotine exposure and animal behavior
  • Neuronal receptors for nicotine : functional diversity and developmental changes
  • Neural precursors as preferential targets for drug abuse : long term consequences and latent susceptibility to central nervous system disorders
  • Nicotinic receptor regulation of developing catecholamine systems