Sexual Differentiation of the Brain: Genetic, Hormonal and Trophic Factors -- Life at the Interface Between a Dynamic Environment and a Fixed Genome: Epigenetic Programming of Stress Responses by Maternal Behavior -- Effects of Early Life Seizures and Anti-epileptic Drug Treatment on Human Brain Development in Human Models -- Prenatal Development of the Human Blood-Brain Barrier -- Seizure Propensity and Brain Development: A Lesson from Animal Models -- Seizures and Antiepileptic Drugs: Does Exposure Alter Normal Brain Development in Animal Models? -- Overview of Neural Mechanisms in Developmental Disorders -- Drug Permeation Across the Fetal Maternal Barrier -- In Vivo Imaging of Brain Development: Technologies, Models, Applications, and Impact on Understanding the Etiology of Mental Retardation -- Congenital, Non-inheritable Chromosomal Abnormalities Responsible for Neurological Disorders -- Erratum. This book charts the way forward through the field of mammalian brain development, in which the integration of biological function can occur at all levels between the gene and the organism itself. Mammalian Brain Development examines the traditional "nature versus nurture" argument in the spectrum of brain development, discussing in particular sex differences in spatial perception ability, phenotype plasticity, disorders of brain development, Blood-Brain and placental barriers, chromosome abnormalities, as well as the use of imaging techniques. Geared toward neuroscientists, neurologists, pediatricians, pediatric psychiatrists, and neuroimmunologists, this volume paves the way toward the realization that the development of an individual is fundamentally an interaction between its genes and environment.