With each trajectory taken during the ontogeny of an individual, the number of optional
behavioural phenotypes that can be expressed across its life span is reduced. The initial …

The optimal choice of euthanasia method for laboratory rodents depends on a number of
factors, including the scientific goals of the study, the need to minimize animal pain and/or …

Survival of altricial infants depends on attachment to the caregiver–a process that requires
infants to identify, learn, remember, and approach their attachment figure. Here we review …

This study was aimed at characterizing the level of specificity of the human newborn's
response to an odor experienced in utero. Three groups of breast-fed infants and 3 groups …

2. Receptor development.........................................................................................................................
....... 2.1, The olfactory placode …

In this article we discuss five requirements that theoretically must be fulfilled for transnatal
chemosensory learning to occur in three placental species, the rat, the sheep, and the …

The ability of the human fetus to learn about auditory stimuli is well documented. By
comparison however there has been virtually no study of its ability to learn “olfactory” stimuli …

Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness and are more likely to emerge
during childhood compared with most other psychiatric disorders. While research on …

Based on the presentations given by well-known specialists at a recent multidisciplinary
conference of developmental psychobiologists, obstetricians, and physiologists, this book is …

This review analyses the most relevant studies in which ethanol intake was measured after
prenatal exposure to the drug. Despite the variety in methodology, in most such studies this …