Aberrant Development in Infancy: Human and Animal Studies

by Norman R. Ellis (Editor)

Overview

Originally published in 1975, this volume deals with animals and human infants. The chapters reflect a mixture of issues and problems ranging from the significance of sucking responses in the newborn, the development of memory, effects of rearing conditions in monkeys, and brain damage in animals, to processes underlying abnormal development of language. While it appears the issues are diverse, there is actually a common theme. One question is posed: How and why does normal development fail to occur in some human infants? The chapters show that there are many causes of aberrations: physical or psychological trauma, disease, inheritance, and drugs. Although one may be primary, "multiple causation" would still appear to be a sound principle in developmental pathology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815347507
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Series:	Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Norman R. Ellis

Table of Contents

Preface 1. The Myth of Recovery from Early Brain Damage 2. Functional Adaptation after Brain Injury and Malformation in Early Life in Rats 3. Social Responses to Blind Infant Monkeys 4. Vulnerability for Abnormal Development: Pregnancy Outcomes and Sex Differences in Macaque Monkeys 5. An Animal Model for the Small-for-Gestational-Age Infant: Some Behavioral and Morphological Findings 6. Behavioral Development Viewed in Terms of Conspecific Communication 7. Paradoxical Effects of Amphetamine on Behavioral Arousal in Neonatal and Adult Rats: A Possible Animal Model of the Calming Effect of Amphetamine on Hyperkinetic Children 8. The Concept of a Cumulative Risk Score for Infants 9. Early Development of Sleeping Behaviors in Infants 10. Correlations between Scores on the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale, Measures of Newborn Sucking Behavior, and Birthweight in Infants born to Narcotic Addiced Mothers 11. Development of Fine Motor Behaviors: Issues and Research 12. Behavioral Effects from Antenatal Exposure to Teratogens 13. Morphological and Behavioral Consequences of Chemically Induced Lesions of the CNS 14. Critical Periods in Fetal Development: Differential Effects on Learning and Development Produced by Maternal Vitamin A Excess 15. Infant Recognition Memory as a Present and Future Index of Cognitive Abilities 16. Infant Visual Memory: A Backward Look into the Future 17. Infant Habituation: Process, Problems and Possibilities 18. Process Defects That Might Underlie Aberrant Language Development 19. Overview and Synthesis 20. Comments on the Strategies of Studying Early Development in Relation to Intelligence 21. Aberrant Development in Infancy: Overview and Synthesis 22. Conference Comments. Author Index.