REFERENCES

TITLE: “Anthropological and biological aspects of skin-to-skin contact”

FACULTY: Nils Bergman, MB,ChB, DCH, MPH, MD C14

(USA equivalent MD. DCH. MPH. PhD.)

1. Introduction and background

A. Anthropology defined. (Wikipedia)

B. Importance of assumptions (Online dictionaries)

2. Physical anthropology

A. mammalian care patterns (1;2)

B. primate studies (3)

C. bipedalism - encephalisation. (4;5)

3. Evolution Environment Adaptation

A. Interplay described

B. Effect of culture on EEA

C. Human recent history.

D. Culture and evolution

4. Linguistic anthropology

A. Development of language (6-8)

B. Emotions & neuroscience (6-9)

C. Role of skin-to-skin contact. (10-15)

5. Future archeology (16)

A. Some scenarios !!!!

Reference List

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(9) Bates E, Thal D, Finlay B, Clancy B. Early language development and its neural correlates. In: Rapin I, Segalowitz S, editors. Handbook of Neuropsychology. 2nd edition ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2005.

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(12) Feldman R, Weller A, Sirota L, Eidelman AI. Skin-to-Skin contact (Kangaroo care) promotes self-regulation in premature infants: sleep-wake cyclicity, arousal modulation, and sustained exploration. Dev Psychol 2002 March;38(2):194-207.

(13) Feldman R, Eidelman AI. Skin-to-skin contact (Kangaroo Care) accelerates autonomic and neurobehavioural maturation in preterm infants. Dev Med Child Neurol 2003 April;45(4):274-81.

(14) Ferber SG, Makhoul IR. The effect of skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care) shortly after birth on the neurobehavioral responses of the term newborn: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics 2004 April;113(4):858-65.

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(16) Wilson DR. Darwinian Theory in the service of medicine and psychiatry. Evolutionary epidemiology 2004 December 8;41(3):205-18.