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Brain mechanisms in mental retardation : proceedings of a conference in the series on mental retardation sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and human development mental retardation research centers serie /

Brain Mechanisms in Mental Retardation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buchwald, Nathaniel A. (Editor ), Brazier, Mary A. B. (Mary Agnes Burniston), 1904-1995 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York ; London, England : Academic Press, 1975.
Edición:United Kingdom edition.
Colección:UCLA forum in medical sciences ; no. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Brain Mechanisms in Mental Retardation; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors and Participants; Foreword; Welcoming Remarks; Part I: Development of Neuronal Functions; Chapter 1. Timing of Major Ontogenetic Events in the Visual Cortex of the Rhesus Monkey; A. INTRODUCTION; B. TIME OF NEURON ORIGIN; C. CORRELATION BETWEEN TIME OF ORIGIN AND EVENTUAL POSITION OF NEURONS IN THE CORTICAL LAMINAE; D. PLACE OF NEURON ORIGIN; E. RATE AND MODE OF NEURONAL MIGRATION; F. GENESIS OF RADIAL GLIAL CELLS AND ASTROCYTES.
  • G. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIME OF NEURON ORIGIN AND THE APPEARANCE OF CONVOLUTIONS IN THE OCCIPITAL LOBEH. SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Effects of Interference with Cerebellar Maturation on the Development of Locomotion. An Experimental Model of Neurobehavioral Retardation; INTRODUCTION; NORMATIVE STUDY OF THE POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAT CEREBELLUM; INTERFERENCE WITH POSTNATAL CEREBELLAR DEVELOPMENT BY FOCAL LOW LEVEL X-IRRADIATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT OF LOCOMOTION IN RATS; EFFECTS OF FOCAL CEREBELLAR X-IRRADIATION ON LOCOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT.
  • PREWEANING TREATMENTS THAT INTERFERE WITH CEREBELLAR AND LOCOMOTOR DEVELOPMENTCONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Neuronal Sprouting after Hippocampal Lesions; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Physiological Properties of Vertebrate Nerve Cells in Tissue Culture; THE MODEL SYSTEM; USE OF THE CULTURE SYSTEM AS A MODEL OF NEURONAL FUNCTION; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 4A. Discussion: Biochemical Studies in Various Culture Systems of Neural Tissues; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Synaptic and Dendritic Development and Mental Defect; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES.
  • Chapter 6. Normal and Aberrant Neuronal Development in the Cerebral Cortex of Human Fetus and Young InfantINTRODUCTION; MATERIAL AND METHODS; DENDRITIC DIFFERENTIATION IN HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS OF HUMAN FETUS; AN APPROACH TO THE COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AXOSOMATIC AND AXODENDRITIC SYNAPTIC PATHWAYS IN IMMATURE HUMAN HIPPOCAMPUS; OBSERVATIONS ON DENDRITIC SPINES AND FINE DENDRITIC PROCESSES IN DEVELOPMENTAL RETARDATION; MORPHOLOGICAL SUBSTRATE OF VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS IN THE PRETERM INFANT; COMMENT: TOWARD A DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY OF MENTAL RETARDATION?; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.