... 2004 brain injury development excitotoxicity apoptosis Perinatal hypoxic–ischemic brain damage is a major cause of acute mortality and chronic neurologic morbidity in infants and children. Statistics suggest an incidence of systemic asphyxia in 2–4 per 1000 full-term births...

.... glucocorticoids), are discussed in the review by Raichle and Hornbein ( Raichle and Hornbein, 2001 ). The same physiological mechanisms I have described above as possible inciters of hypoxic brain injury might also interfere with brain function while at altitude, at rest and particularly with exertion...