Mammalian Brain Development

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Table of Contents: Sexual differentiation of the brain: genetic, hormonal, and trophic factorsHugo F. Carrer; María J. Cambiasso Life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome: Epigenetic programming of stress responses by maternal behaviorIan Weaver, PhD Effects of early life seizures and anti-epileptic drug treatment on brain development in human modelsAmy Brooks-Kayal, MD; Eric Marsh, MD, PhD Prenatal development of the human blood-brain barrierLuca Cucullo, PhD Seizure propensity and brain development: a lesson from animal modelsAnnamaria Vezzani, PhD; Jana Veliskova, PhD; Astrid Nehlig, PhD Seizures and antiepileptic drugs: does exposure alter normal brain development in animals models?Solomon Moshe, MD; Libor Velisek, MD, PhD; Aristea Galanopoulou, MD, PhD Overview of neural mechanisms of developmental disordersAyush Batra; Dr. Kathleen Franco; Erin Carlton Drug permeation across the fetal maternal barriersChaitali Ghosh; Nicola Marchi, PhD In vivo imaging of brain development: Technologies, models, applications, and impact on understanding the etiology of mental retardationVicko Gluncic, MD Congenital, non-inheritable chromosomal abnormalities responsible for neurological disordersPatrizia D''Adamo and Riccardo Bianchi, PhD