num_pages: 168
description: "This book is the first to study the complex interactions between altered placental function and neurodisability. It provides detailed accounts of placental lesions that affect normal structure and function - how impaired placental function may contribute to deviant fetal growth and altered brain development; the processes that lead to brain injury; and the extent to which such early effects on brain development lead to disability in later childhood." "In addressing these issues, the authors have reviewed the literature and have included details of their own research. Their conclusions are far reaching, with medical, ethical and economic implications. Any definitive intervention to reduce the impact of impaired placental function on neurodisability would have a massive impact." Although the authors' main purpose is to promote scientific debate, the book is also relevant to clinicians (obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians and pathologists), and to basic scientists in the field.
title: The Placenta and Neurodisability (Clinics in Developmental Medicine
titlecomplete: The Placenta and Neurodisability (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))
publisher: MacKeith Press