STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of family welfare index (FWI) and maternal education on the probability of infant death. DESIGN A population based multistage stratified clustered survey. SETTING Women of reproductive age in Indonesia between 1983-1997. DATA SOURCES The 1997 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey. MAIN RESULTS Infant mortality was associated with FWI and maternal...

3 monkeys impaired on delayed response and delayed alternation after midlateral frontal lesions, 3 monkeys unimpaired on these tasks after control lesions, and 3 unoperated monkeys were tested on spatial delayed response (with direct baiting) and spatial delayed alternation following 2, 26, and 50 hr. of food deprivation. Increased deprivation improved delayed response performance by all groups...

background: the present study examined the possible role of endogenous opioidergic system in effect of food deprivation on formalin-induced nociceptive behaviors in male and female rats. also, we investigated the effect of food deprivation on the plasma level of beta-endorphin and sex hormones. methods: food was withdrawn 48 h prior to performing the formalin test, but water continued to be ava...

BACKGROUND Children with callous-unemotional (CU) traits, a proposed precursor to adult psychopathy, are characterized by impaired emotion recognition, reduced responsiveness to others' distress, and a lack of guilt or empathy. Reduced attention to faces, and more specifically to the eye region, has been proposed to underlie these difficulties, although this has never been tested longitudinally...

A defect in the maternal copy of a ubiqutin ligase gene Ube3a can produce a neurodevelopmental defect in human children known as Angelman syndrome. We investigated the role of the maternally expressed Ube3a gene in experience-dependent development and plasticity of the mouse visual system. As demonstrated by optical imaging, rapid ocular dominance (OD) plasticity after brief monocular deprivati...

Every year, 536,000 women die from pregnancyrelated causes. More than 80 percent of maternal deaths worldwide are due to five direct causes: hemorrhage, sepsis, unsafe abortion, obstructed labor and hypertensive disease of pregnancy. The latest report from the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths (UK) lists eclampsia and pre-eclampsia as the second most common cause and showed an increas...

INTRODUCTION Foetal abuse is that intentional or negligent act that causes a harmful effect to the foetus. It is a type of abuse difficult to diagnose and handle. Some indicators of suspicion are the absence of gestational control, the maternal consumption of toxic substances, or the problematic maternal social environment. OBJECTIVE To analyse the cases of foetal abuse registered in Cataloni...