Advances in Behavioral Pharmacology Volume 5: Developmental Behavioral Pharmacology

First published in 1986. This monograph is based on a conference sponsored by the Human Learning and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH. The meeting that was held at the Xerox Center in Leesburg, Virginia, in August 1983, brought together a group of leading researchers for the purpose of providing an overview of the emerging field of developmental behavioral pharmacology. More specifically, as is evidenced by the chapters in this volume, the intent was to put the field into historical perspective, render a working definition, and outline strategies and tactics for conducting behavioral pharmacological research in the developing organism.

Contributors To This Volume, Preface, PART I. INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION: PERSPECTIVES AND NEW DIRECTIONS, Chapter 2. ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENTAL BEHAVIORAL PHARMACOLOGY, Chapter 3. LESSONS FROM THE HISTORY OF BEHAVIORAL PHARMACOLOGY, PART II. STRATEGIES AND TACTICS OF ASSESSMENT, Chapter 4. THE MEASUREMENT OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 5. ON THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK, Chapter 6. THE MULTIPLE NODES OF BEHAVIORAL TOXICOLOGY, Chapter 7. ASSESSMENT OF NEUROBEHAVIORAL STABILITY IN INFANTS, Chapter 8. BEHAVIORAL HISTORY: RESIDUAL INFLUENCES ON SUBSEQUENT BEHAVIOR AND DRUG EFFECTS, Chapter 9. THE ASSESSMENT OF DRUG EFFECTS ON LEARNING AND STIMULUS PROCESSING BY MEANS OF CLASSICAL CONDITIONING, PART III. PERINATAL HEAVY METALS EXPOSURE, Chapter 10. TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING BEHAVIORAL TOXICOLOGY AND TERATOLOGY IN THE MONKEY, Chapter 11. VULNERABILITY TO LEAD AT LATER DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES, Chapter 12. EXPOSURE TO LEAD AT LOW DOSE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD AND BEFORE BIRTH, PART IV. PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE, Chapter 13. SLEEP AND WAKE BEHAVIORAL STATES AS A DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE, Chapter 14. PRENATAL MATERNAL BARBITURATES EFFECTS ON OFFSPRING, Chapter 15. EXPERIMENTAL SEPARATION OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON NEUROBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT, Chapter 16. THE FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME AS A MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF THE BEHAVIORAL TERATOLOGY OF ALCOHOL, Author Index, Subject Index

Norman A. Krasnegor, David B. Gray both Human Learning and Behavior Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda, Maryland. Travis Thompson Department of Psychology University of Minnesota.