Front Cover; Growth and Maturation of the Brain; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Events in the developing nervous system; Chapter 2. The evolutionary aspect of the integrative function of the cortex and subcortex of the brain; Chapter 3. The cerebral cortex of the premature infant of the 8th month; Chapter 4. Some correlations between the appearance of human fetal reflexes and the development of the nervous system; Chapter 5. Postnatal changes in glia/neuron index with a comparison of methods of cell enumeration in the white rat

Chapter 6. Quantitative analysis of neuronal parameters in the maturing cerebral cortexChapter 7. Electron microscopy of immature human and feline neocortex; Chapter 8. Comparative ontogenesis of structure-function relations in cerebral and cerebellar cortex; Chapter 9. Critères de maturation des systèmes affèrents corticaux; Chapter 10. Brain Mitochondria; Chapter 11. Molecular evolution of lactate dehydrogenase in the developing nervous tissue; Chapter 12. Enzymatic mechanism of the protein biosynthesis in the developing nervous system; Author index; Subject index