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Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Radial Glial Cells
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Oct 20, 2010
Prenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure can have dramatic effects on the development of the central nervous system (CNS), including morphological…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionCongenital DisordersFetus
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Central Nervous System Development
By: Erica O'Neil
| Published: Sep 12, 2010
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical, neurological, behavioral, and learning defects collectively grouped under…
fetal alcohol syndromeReproductionHuman Development
The Guthrie Test for Early Diagnosis of Phenylketonuria
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Mar 30, 2017
The Guthrie test, also called the PKU test, is a diagnostic tool to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. To administer the…
TechnologyGuthrie, Robert, 1916-1995PhenylketonuriaMental RetardationAmino acids--Metabolism--Disorders
Oral Glucose Tolerance Test for Gestational Diabetes
By: Alison Lane
| Published: Dec 09, 2020
In the twentieth century, researchers developed the oral glucose tolerance test, or OGTT, as a method to diagnose different types of diabetes, a…
TechnologyDiagnosisDiabetes--DiagnosisGlucose tolerance testsBlood Glucose
“Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary Perspective” (2011), by Vivette Glover
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: May 02, 2020
In 2011, fetal researcher Vivette Glover published “Annual Research Review: Prenatal Stress and the Origins of Psychopathology: An Evolutionary…
LiteratureStress in adolescenceStress in youthPsychological StressPregnancy
“Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids and the Programming of the Brain” (2001), by Leonie Welberg and Jonathan Seckl
By: Carrie Keller
| Published: Sep 24, 2020
In 2001, researchers Leonie Welberg and Jonathan Seckl published the literature review “Prenatal Stress, Glucocorticoids, and the Programming of the…
LiteratureFetal malnutritionFetal behaviorPrenatal influencesPrenatal Care
“Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Mothers’ Reflections on Supports Needed From Diagnosis to Birth” (1998), by David T. Helm, Sara Miranda, and Naomi Angoff Chedd
By: Grace Rauch
| Published: Jun 04, 2024
On 1 February 1998, David T. Helm, Sara Miranda, and Naomi Angoff Chedd published “Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome: Mothers’ Reflections on…
Down syndromeCongenital AbnormalitiesGenetic disorders in pregnancygenetic testingAmniocentesis
"Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?" from The Ants (1990), by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
By: Kelle Dhein
| Published: Apr 18, 2017
In “Testing the Kin Selection Theory: Who Controls the Investments?” Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson discussed the predictive power of kin…
LiteratureAntsAnimal behaviorReproductionNatural selection
Clinical Tests of Estrogen Injections on Women with Abnormal Menstrual Cycles During the Early 1920s by Jean Paul Pratt and Edgar Allen
By: Brendan Van Iten
| Published: Apr 06, 2017
In the early twentieth century US, Jean Paul Pratt and Edgar Allen conducted clinical experiments on women who had abnormal menstrual cycles. During…
EstrogenEndocrinologyDoisy, Edward Adelbert, 1893-1986MenstruationUterus
Dennis Lo (1963- )
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Nov 04, 2014
Dennis Lo, also called Yuk Ming Dennis Lo, is a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China. In 1997, Lo discovered fetal…
genetic testingHuman chromosome abnormalities--DiagnosisPrenatal DiagnosisAmniocentesisChorionic Villus Sampling