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| Substance Abuse Care in Pregnancy Helps Mom and Baby - Monday, July 14, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born to women with substance abuse problems will fare better if their mothers undergo treatment for these problems early in pregnancy, according to the largest study to date to investigate this issue. read more ...
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| Does a Pint a Day Affect Your Child's Pay? - Friday, June 06, 2008The results of this Swedish study indicate that investments in early-life health may have far reaching effects on economic outcomes later in life. read more ...
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| Early Alcohol May Fuel Heaving Drinking in Rats - Thursday, June 05, 2008NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of adolescent rats, scientist saw that early alcohol exposure led to a tendency toward heavy drinking later on -- and the same might be true for humans. read more ...
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| High School Graduate with FAS - Thursday, June 05, 2008Tyler was diagnosed at birth with FAS, but at age 18 has already put out more personal fires tha most adults. read more ...
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| African-American Women Least Likely to Reduce Drinking During Pregnancy - Wednesday, March 26, 2008New article published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. read more ...
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| Impaired Eyeblink Conditioning in Children with FAS - Monday, February 18, 2008Eyeblink conditioning (EBC) is a Pavlovian paradigm that involves contingent temporal pairing of a conditioned stimulus (e.g., tone) with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g., air puff). Animal studies have shown that binge consumption of alcohol during pregnancy impairs EBC and that this impairment is likely mediated by a loss of neurons in the inferior olive and the cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei, as well as by a reduction in neural plasticity in the cerebellar deep nuclei. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 32, 365-372 (2008).
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| Prevention of FAS Requires Routine Screening - Monday, February 18, 2008Alcohol-related neurobehavioral abnormalities may affect three additional children for every one child diagnosed with classic fetal alcohol syndrome. One in 50 pregnant women reported binge drinking during the current pregnancy. ACOG recommends screening all women of childbearing age for at-risk alcohol consumption. read more ...
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| Alcohol & Pregnancy: Know the Facts - Friday, February 08, 2008Washington, DC -- The recent news story "Can Pregnant Women Drink Alcohol in Moderation?", which aired on ABC's Good Morning America Weekend, has created tremendous confusion among women about the safety of drinking alcohol during pregnancy. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) strongly urges women not to ignore the public health warnings associated with consuming alcohol while pregnant. read more ...
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| Numbers, Sequences Pose Problems for FAS Children - Friday, February 08, 2008Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have particular difficulty understanding numbers and sequences, a University of Alberta study shows. An assessment of 50 Canadian children diagnosed with FASD, a condition caused by the mother's alcohol consumption while a fetus is still in the womb, revealed that the youngsters had specific deficits in memory for numbers and sequences, which may contribute to common math difficulties faced by these children. Prenatal alcohol abuse often leaves them with losses in physical, behavioural, emotional and social functioning. read more ...
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| Put Down That Drink - Friday, February 01, 2008Put down that drink if you are pregnant (or trying to be); This CDC podcast discusses the danger of drinking alchol during pregnancy. read more ...
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| Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Shapes Sensory Preference - Friday, February 01, 2008APA Press Release - Two studies help explain why teens exposed to fetal alcohol are at high risk for heavy drinking and perpetuating a family cycle of alcohol addiction. read more ...
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| Reduction in Newborns With Discharge Coding of In Utero Alcohol Effects in the US - Monday, January 08, 2007Has the use of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification ( ICD-9-CM) code for fetal alcohol effects declined during the past 10 years among hospitalized newborns in the United States. read more ...
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