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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among pre-adopted and foster children
BMC Pediatrics, 2020 Background Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders. Children in foster care or domestically adopted are at greater risk for FASD.
Ariel Tenenbaum +6 more
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Fetal Alcohol Exposure Reduces Dopamine Receptor D2 and Increases Pituitary Weight and Prolactin Production via Epigenetic Mechanisms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent evidence indicated that alcohol exposure during the fetal period increases the susceptibility to tumor development in mammary and prostate tissues.
Omkaram Gangisetty +4 more
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Population-based prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Canada
BMC Public Health, 2019 BackgroundFetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one of the most disabling potential outcomes of prenatal alcohol exposure. The population-based prevalence of FASD among the general population of Canada was unknown.
S. Popova +7 more
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Suicide risk in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Birth Defects Research, 2019 The teratogenic effects of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) have been extensively documented over the course of 45 years of research and psychiatric problems are pervasive in this population.
M. O’Connor +3 more
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Potential Role of Endocannabinoids Signaling
Brain Sciences, 2015 One of the unique features of prenatal alcohol exposure in humans is impaired cognitive and behavioral function resulting from damage to the central nervous system (CNS), which leads to a spectrum of impairments referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum ...
Balapal S. Basavarajappa
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Paediatrics & Child Health, 2002 Alcohol is a physical and behavioural teratogen. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a common yet under-recognized condition resulting from maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. While preventable, FAS is also disabling.Although FAS is found in all socioeconomic groups in Canada, it has been observed at high prevalence in select First Nations ...
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2015 Prenatal exposure to alcohol can damage the developing fetus and is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities. In 1973, fetal alcohol syndrome was first described as a specific cluster of birth defects resulting from alcohol exposure in utero.
Janet F, Williams, Vincent C, Smith
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Brain Sciences, 2012 Developmental alcohol exposure both early in life and during adolescence can have a devastating impact on normal brain structure and functioning, leading to behavioral and cognitive impairments that persist throughout the lifespan.
Gillian F. Hamilton +2 more
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DNA methylation as a predictor of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Clinical Epigenetics, 2018 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a developmental disorder that manifests through a range of cognitive, adaptive, physiological, and neurobiological deficits resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure.
A. Lussier +8 more
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Brain Sciences, 2016 Fetal alcohol exposure (FAE) alters hippocampal cell numbers in rodents and primates, and this may be due, in part, to a reduction in the number or migration of neuronal progenitor cells.
Mark W. Burke +4 more
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