Maternal Influences on Fetal Neurodevelopment

1. Brave New World: The Intrauterine Environment as the Biological Foundation for the Lifespan
Tonse N. K. Raju

2. In the Beginning
Janet A. DiPietro

3. Maternal Influences on the Developing Fetus
Janet A. DiPietro

4. Implications of Maternal Programming for Fetal Neurodevelopment
Laura M. Glynn

5. Maternal Thyroid Function During Pregnancy: Effects on the Developing Fetal Brain
Joanne F. Rovet, Karen A. Willoughby

6. Obstetric Factors Related to Perinatal Brain Injury
Christopher S. Ennen, Ernest M. Graham

7. Activation of the Maternal Immune System as a Risk Factor for Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Stephen E. P. Smith, Elaine Hsiao, Paul H. Patterson

8. Prenatal Infections and Schizophrenia in Later Life – Focus on Toxoplasma gondii

Robert Yolken, E. Fuller Torrey

9. Maternally Acting Alleles in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Role of HLA-DR4 Within the Major Histocompatibility Complex
William G. Johnson, Steven Buyske, Edward S. Stenroos, George H. Lambert

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Neurology, Obstetrics/Perinatology, Gynecology, Human Physiology, Neurosciences, Human Genetics