The Placenta and Neurodisability

This comprehensive and authoritative book discusses the critical role of the utero-placenta in neurodisability, both at term and preterm. It examines aspects of fetal compromise and possible cerebro-protective interventions, recent evidence on fetal growth and mental illness, as well as cerebro-therapeutics. Throughout the book, information from the basic sciences placed within the clinical context.

    Written by leading obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians and pathologists.
    Discusses the role of  placenta in the  pathophysiology of  CNS
    Examines recent evidence of endocrine, haematological and inflammatory origins of utero-placental dysfunction
    Reviews latest advances in antepartum and perinatal imaging

Contents

1. Placental pathology and perinatal brain injury

Raymond Redline

2. Abnormal Placental Phenotypes

Colin Sibley and Michelle Desforges

3. Aberrant placental endocrinology, fetal growth and neurodevelopment

Jayne Charnoc and  Melissa Westwood

4. The rheology of utero-placental and feto-placental blood flow

Ian Crocker

5. Inflammation and Placentation

Karen Racicot and Gil Mor

6. Infections and the fetal inflammatory response

Donald Peebles and Catherine James

7. Cerebral ischaemia and white matter injury

Suresh Victor and  Michael Weindling

8. In utero imaging of the human placenta

Emma Ingram and Ed Johnstone

9. Cerebral Function and Fetal Growth Restriction

Irene Cetin and Valentina Brusati

10. Placental programming and mental illness: fetal growth and schizophrenia

Kathryn Abel and Martin Allin

11. Cerebro-therapeutics

Philip Steer

12. Summing up and unsolved problems

Karin Nelson