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XIV; 456 S.; Illustr.; graph. Darst.; 23 cm. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. gering berieben. - Englisch. // INHALT : Foreward. -- PETER STRATTON -- Significance of the Psychobiology of the Human Newborn. -- Sources of significance of the neonatal period. -- Adaptation and survival. -- Continuity. -- The Newborn as outcome. -- Value of the Newborn. -- Adaptation. -- Transactions. -- Perspectives needed for the study and treatment ofnewborns. -- SECTION 1 ASSESSMENT -- HEINZ F. R. PRECHTL -- Assessment Methods for the Newborn Infant, A Critical Evaluation -- The identification of risk factors. -- (a) Obstetrical complications. -- (b) The optimality concept. -- (c) Limitations of the at-risk concept. -- The neurological assessment of the newborn infant. -- (a) The need for a concept of the nervous system. -- (b) The objective of neonatal neurological assessment. -- (c) Essentials of design. -- (d) A comparison between the different methods. -- The behavioural assessment. -- Concluding remarks. -- 3. HEINZ F. R. PRECHTL and MICHAEL JOHN O'BRIEN Behavioural States of the Full-term Newborn -- The Emergence of a Concept. -- Why behavioural states?. -- What are behavioural states?. -- Essential characteristics of states. -- The systematic study of behavioural states. -- (a) Naturalistic observations. -- (b) Polygraphic investigations. -- (c) Studies on the input-output-state relation. -- The choice of variables as state indicators. -- State classifications and their nomenclature. -- Concluding remarks. -- 4. C. AMIEL-TISON -- Neurological Signs, Aetiology, and Implications. -- Pathophysiologic considerations. -- Cerebral symptoms. -- Generalized hypotonia. -- Hypertonia in neck extensors. -- Diagnostic procedures. -- Specific types of brain damage. -- Follow-up studies: Methodological approach. -- Follow-up studies: Results at school age. -- (a) Preliminary remarks. -- (b) Relative position of perinatal risk. -- (c) Categories of perinatal risk. -- Summary and practical conclusions. -- (a) Who to include in follow-up studies?. -- (b) Summary of perinatal risk according to gestational age and birth weight. -- SECTION II CAPACITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS -- 5. GORDON W. BRONSON -- Structure, Status and Characteristics of the Nervous System at Birth -- The organization of the brain: An evolutionary perspective. -- Indices of developmental status. -- Patterns of myelinization. -- Histological developments within the neocortex. -- The growth of evoked potentials. -- Summary of patterns of neural growth. -- The mediational basis of infant behaviours. -- The contribution of early sensory experience. -- Summary. -- 6. PETER STRATTON -- Rhythmic Functions in the Newborn. -- When is a repetitive function a rhythm?. -- Pendulum versus relaxation. -- Brain rhythms. -- Cardiac and respiratory function. -- Vocal and oral rhythms. -- Crying. -- Sucking. -- Spontaneous behaviours. -- State cycles. -- Circadian rhythms. -- Rhythmic Input. -- Conclusions. -- 7. CAROLYN K. ROVEE-COLLIER and LEWIS P. LIPSITT -- Learning, Adaptation and Memory in the Newborn. -- The newborn as a biological organism. -- Newborn learning. -- Habituation and conditionability. -- Classical conditioning. -- Hybrid conditioning procedures and instrumental learning. -- Memory in the neonatal period. -- Clinical implications of reflexive transitions: Crib death. Final comment. -- JANETTE ATKINSON and OLIVER BRADDICK -- Sensory and Perceptual Capacities of the Neonate. -- Methods of studying sensory processes in the neonate. -- Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity of the neonate. -- The development of the visual pathway at birth. -- Refraction and accommodation of the neonatal eye. -- Functional implications of infants'spatial vision. -- Eye movements. -- Binocular function. -- Distance and depth perception. -- Visual fields and the capture of visual attention. -- Colour vision. -- Sensitivity to flicker and motion. -- Pattern processing and preferences. -- The externality effect. -- Visual development immediately following the neonatal period Auditory sensitivity of the neonate. // (u.v.a.m.) ISBN 0471100935