| Description |
xii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Contents note continued: 6.Localized Movements -- 6.1.Hand and Arm Movements -- 6.2.Leg Movements -- 7.Facial Expressions -- 7.1.Basic Emotions -- 7.2.Cross-Modal Integration -- 7.3.Preparing for Post-Natal Communications -- 7.4.Parental Reactions -- 7.5.Yawning: a Form of Communicating? -- 8.Rest-Activity Cycles, Clusters and the Ontogeny of Sleep -- 8.1.Sleep in Children -- 8.2.Behavioural States in Premature Infants and Mature Fetuses -- 8.3.Early Fetal Functioning: Rest-Activity Cycles and Clusters of Activities -- 8.3.1.Ontogeny of Sleep and Its Possible Precursors -- 9.Twin Fetuses and Twin Myths -- 9.1.Beginnings of Intrapair Stimulation and its Relevance for Our Knowledge of the Sensory Capacities of All Fetuses -- 9.2.Features of Rest Cycles Revealed by Twins -- 9.3.Similarities and Differences -- 9.4.Behavioural Individuality -- 9.5.Universal Myths -- 9.6.Twins: Open to Mutual Communication -- 9.7.Maternal Emotions and their Impact on the Twin Fetus -- |
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Contents note continued: 9.8.Bereavement in the Twin Fetus -- 10.Conclusions. Movement is Life -- 10.1.Fetal Movements: Varied and Varying Functions -- 10.2.Shaping a Sense of our Boundaries -- 10.3.Building a Body Schema and a Proto-Sense of Self -- 10.4.Forming the Cortical Homunculus and its Curious Layout? -- 10.5.Building on Expressive Repertorie |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.General Movements -- 1.1.General Movements: 7-16 weeks -- 1.2.Length of the Feet and Epidermal Ridges -- 1.3.General Movements: 17-25 weeks -- 1.4.General Movements: Frequency and Duration -- 1.5.Central Pattern Generators -- 2.Startles, Twitches and Clonuses -- 2.1.Startles -- 2.2.Twitches -- 2.3.Clonuses -- 3.Hiccups, Yawning and Gasping -- 3.1.Hiccups -- 3.2.Yawning -- 3.3.Gasping -- 4.Fetal Breathing Movements -- 4.1.Fetal Breathing Movements: General Features -- 4.2.Fetal Breathing Movements: Non-Coincidence with other Behavioural Events -- 4.3.Apnoeic Pauses -- 4.4.Possible Functional Significance -- 4.5.Neurological Substrate -- 5.Swallowing, Sucking, and Handedness as Inferred from Fetal Thumb Sucking -- 5.1.Swallowing and Sucking: General Features -- 5.2.Swallowing: Development -- 5.3.Fetal Swallowing: Possible Functions -- 5.4.Swallowing: Possible Regulation -- 5.5.Handedness in the Human Fetus as Assessed by Thumb-Sucking -- |
| Summary |
This work aims to provide a detailed reasoned map of fetal behavior by describing its features and evolution from 10 to 25 weeks gestation. Each behavioral event is described, measured in seconds and presented as it occurs in its natural sequence, thus providing a 'real-time' picture of fetal behavior. Links between events become clear, and events are connected to the changing anatomy and physiology of the nervous system and of the fetal body in general. Transient behaviour with its underlying structures and possible functions is carefully distinguished from anticipatory functions heralding post-natal life. Furthermore, phenomena of physiologic significance during prenatal life, but which can acquire pathological connotations for the premature infant having to meet the different requirements of the post-natal environment, are also outlined. Finally, various prenatal 'myths' are discussed, in order to give scientific information on issues;that are particularly relevant, given the heated pro-life versus pro-choice debate |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Embryology, Human.
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Fetal behavior.
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Fetus -- Development.
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Fetus -- Growth.
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Fetus -- Movements.
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Fetal Movement -- physiology.
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Fetal Movement.
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Nervous System -- growth & development.
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Fetal Movement -- physiology.
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Nervous System -- growth & development.
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| LC no. |
2010923295 |
| ISBN |
8847014018 |
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9788847014015 |
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