Infanticide - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Gene expression profiling in porcine maternal infanticide: a model for puerperal psychosis.

3 Oct 2008 The etiology of mental disorders remains largely unclear. Complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors are key to the development of such disorders. Puerperal psychosis is the most extreme form of postnatal mood disorder in women. ... Read more...

Maternal depression and filicide-case study of ten mothers.

26 Jun 2008 This study describes ten cases of filicides committed by mothers who intentionally killed one or more of their children within 12 months after delivery. The data were collected from police and court records, forensic psychiatric records, autopsy ... Read more...

Missing girls in India: infanticide, feticide and made-to-order pregnancies? Insights from hospital-based sex-ratio-at-birth over the last century.

19 May 2008 BACKGROUND: There are 44 million missing women in India. Gender bias; neglect of girls, infanticides and feticides are responsible. The sex ratio at birth can be used to examine the influence of antenatal sex selection on the sex ratio. MATERIALS ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Infanticide'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gene expression profiling in porcine maternal infanticide: a model for puerperal psychosis. 3 Oct 2008
• [The problem of infanticide] 29 Jun 2008
• Maternal depression and filicide-case study of ten mothers. 26 Jun 2008
• [How can the unthinkable be understood?] 30 May 2008
• Missing girls in India: infanticide, feticide and made-to-order pregnancies? Insights from hospital-based sex-ratio-at-birth over the last century. 19 May 2008
• New mothers' thoughts of harm related to the newborn. 6 May 2008
• Paediatric ethics: a repudiation of the Groningen protocol. 13 Mar 2008
• [The shaken baby syndrome: a serious diagnosis on an insecure foundation?] 28 Feb 2008
• Filicide-suicide in Chicago, 1870-1930. 11 Feb 2008
• Comment: infant abandonment in Texas. 30 Jan 2008
• Surveying the foundations of medical law: a reassessment of Glanville Williams's the sanctity of life and the criminal law. 30 Dec 2007
• [Filicide; psychiatric disorders in parents who murder their children--a literature review] 30 Dec 2007
• Maternal filicide theoretical framework. 30 Dec 2007
• Kindled non-convulsive behavioral seizures, analogous to primates. A 24th case of 'limbic psychotic trigger reaction': bizarre parental infanticide--might nonvoluntariness during LPTR become objectified by primate model? 30 Dec 2007
• [Reaction on 'Filicide; psychiatric disorders in parents who murder their children - a review'] 30 Dec 2007
• Judgments of culpability in a filicide scenario. 24 Dec 2007
• [Children as victims of homicide 1972-2005] 17 Nov 2007
• [Infanticide in the postpartum period: about a clinical case] 5 Nov 2007
• Immunohistochemical study of thyroid transcription factor-1 and surfactant-associated protein A for investigation of peripheral airway structure in perinatal fatality. 3 Nov 2007
• [Children murdered by their mothers in the postpartum period] 30 Oct 2007

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Technical information about 'Infanticide'

Definition: The killing of infants at birth or soon after.

Descriptor UI: D007237

Alternative terms: Infanticide; Infanticides;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.198.240.470.572;

Technical Notes: restrict to humans: do not use for the killing of young of other primates or other animals in scientific exper; do not use for killing of newborn or young animals by their parents ( = BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL)