Advances in the Prevention and Treatment of Inflammation-Associated Preterm Birth

• Main Author: Nobuo Masataka (auth)
• Other Authors: Leonid Perlovsky (auth), Kazuo Hiraki (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuroimaging; fNIRS; emotion; working memory; Activation study; Hemoglobin; Cognition; Prefrontal Cortex
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

After decades of intensive research and over 10,000 publications, preterm birth remains a major global obstetric healthcare problem. Each year, early birth is responsible for the deaths of more than one million infants worldwide and is a major cause of life-long disability. Preterm birth places an e...