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Author:   Michael Lewis ,  Lisa Kestler
Publisher:   American Psychological Association
Imprint:   American Psychological Association
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.606kg
ISBN:  

9781433810336

ISBN 10:   1433810336
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   15 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
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Contributors Foreword Preface Introduction  Michael Lewis and Lisa Kestler I. Cocaine Gender-Dependent Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure  Lisa Kestler, David S. Bennett, Dennis P. Carmody, and Michael Lewis Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Age 7 Behavior: The Roles of Gender, Quantity, and Duration of Exposure  Virginia Delaney-Black, Chandice Covington, Lisa M. Chiodo, John H. Hannigan, Mark K. Greenwald, James Janisse, Grace Patterson, Joel Ager, Ekemini Akan, Linda Lewandowski, Steven J. Ondersma, Ty Partridge and Robert J. Sokol Sex Differences in the Effects of Cocaine Exposure on Dopaminergic Systems During Brain Development  Diana Dow-Edwards and Annelyn Torres-Reveron Gender Influences on the Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Insights From an Animal Model  Stephane A. Beaudin, Mathew H. Gendle and Barbara J. Strupp II. Tobacco and Marijuana Examination of Gender Differences in Effects of Tobacco Exposure  Claire D. Coles, Julie A. Kable, and Mary Ellen Lynch Sex-Specific Effects of Prenatal Marijuana Exposure on Neurodevelopment and Behavior  Jennifer A. Willford, Gale A. Richardson, and Nancy L. Day III. Alcohol Sex Differences in Prenatal Alcohol Abuse in Humans  Ann P. Streissguth Sex Differences in the Teratogenic Effects of Alcohol: Findings From Animal Models  Nicha K. H. Otero and Sandra J. Kelly IV. Environmental Toxins Gender (Sex) Differences in Response to Prenatal Lead Exposure  Nancy L. Fiedler The Sexually Dimorphic Nature of the Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on the Central Nervous System in the Developing Animal  Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska and Noriyuki Koibuchi Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain: Hormonal Control and Effects of Endocrine Disruptors  Erica L. T. van den Akker and Nynke Weisglas-Kuperus Index About the Editors

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Michael Lewis, PhD, has published more than 300 articles in scientific journals, and he has written or edited more than 35 books, including Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self (1979); Children's Emotions and Moods: Developmental Theory and Measurement (1983); Shame, The Exposed Self (1992); and Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future (1997). He edited the Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2nd ed., 2001), and the Handbook of Emotions (3rd ed., 2009). He recently won the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award from APA for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.   Lisa Kestler, PhD, is a senior clinician at MedAvante, Inc., a psychiatric research company in Hamilton, New Jersey. At the Institute for the Study of Child Development, Dr. Kestler served as an investigator on the National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study on the Developmental Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure, a prospective study spanning the lives of children born to drug-abusing mothers from infancy through adolescence. Drawing on her training in developmental psychopathology at Emory University, Dr. Kestler has been interested in understanding the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development of children following exposure to intrauterine pathogens as well as postnatal stressors, environmental risk, and parental psychopathology.  

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