Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms in Psychopathology

Part I. Basic Mechanisms in Prenatal, Perinatal and Postnatal Neurodevelopmental Processes and Their associations with High Risk Conditions and Adult Mental Disorders: 1. Principles of neurobehavioral teratology Linda Mayes and Anna Ward; 2. The neurodevelopmental consequences of very preterm birth: brain plasticity and its limits Chiara Nosarti, Larry Rifkin and Robin Murray; 3. Neurodevelopment during adolescence Linda Spear; 4. Prenatal risk factors for schizophrenia Alan S. Brown and Ezra S. Susser; 5. Obstetric complications and neurodevelopmental mechanisms in schizophrenia Tyrone Cannon and Isabelle M. Rosso; 6. Maternal influences on prenatal neural development contributing to schizophrenia Jason Shiffman, Sarnoff Mednick, Ricardo Machon, Matti Huttunen, Kay Thomas and Seymour Levine; Part II. Animal Models of Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology: 7. On the relevance of prenatal stress to developmental psychopathology: a primate model Mary L. Schneider, Colleen F. Moore and Gary W. Kraemer; 8. Nonhuman primate models of developmental psychopathology: problems and prospects Dario Maestripieri and Kim Wallen; 9. Early medial temporal dysfunction and autism Jocelyne Bachevalier and Katherine Loveland; Part III. Models of the Nature of Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Developmental Course of Psychopathology: 10. Genetic structure of neurodevelopmental traits: implications for the development and definition of psychopathology Richard Todd and John Constantino; 11. Prospects and problems in the search for genetic influences on neurodevelopment and psychopathology: application to childhood disruptive disorders Irwin Waldman; 12. Developmental psychoneuroimmunology: the role of cytokine network activation in the epigenesis of developmental psychopathology Doug Granger, Nancy A. Dreschel and Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff; 13. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system HPA and the development of aggressive, antisocial and substance abuse disorders Keith McBurnett, Jean King and Angela Scarpa; 14. Neuroendocrine functioning in maltreated children Dante Cicchetti; 15. Toward unraveling the premorbid neurodevelopmental risk for schizophrenia Matcheri Keshavan; 16. Interactions of the dopamine, serotonin and GABA systems during childhood and adolescence: influence of stress on the vulnerability for psychopathology Frances Benes; Part IV. The Neurodevelopmental Course of Illustrative High Risk Conditions and Mental Disorders: 17. Neurobiology of personality disorders: implications for a neurodevelopmental model Larry J. Siever, Harold W. Koenigsberg and Deidre Reynolds; 18. Genesis and epigenesis of psychopathology in children with depressed mothers: toward an integrative biopsychosocial perspective Sherryl H. Goodman; 19. The neurobiology of child and adolescent depression: current knowledge and future directions Joan Kaufman and Dennis Charney; 20. Psychosocial stressors as predisposing factors to affective illness and PTSD: potential neurobiological mechanisms and theoretical implications Robert Post, Gabriele S. Leverich, Susan R. B. Weiss, Li-Xin Zhang, Guoqiang Xing, He Li and Mark Smith; 21. Neurohormonal aspects of the development of psychotic disorders Elaine Walker and Deborah Walder.