Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Cortical Angiogenesis
Researchers at Normandy University, and Rouen and Brest Universities, France studied the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the cortical microvascular and the action of alcohol, glutamate, and vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF) on activity,
J Gordon Millichap
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The effects of sensory integration techniques on muscle tone in children after prenatal exposure to alcohol [PDF]
Background: Prenatal exposure to alcohol is the cause of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Alcohol exerts an especially negative effect on the central nervous system of an unborn child.
Jacek Wilczyński +2 more
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Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure [PDF]
Children and adolescents affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol who have brain damage that is manifested in functional impairments of neurocognition, self-regulation, and adaptive functioning may most appropriately be diagnosed with neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal exposure.
Joseph F, Hagan +12 more
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Neurodevelopmental Trajectories Following Prenatal Alcohol Exposure [PDF]
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) interferes with neurodevelopment. The brain is particularly susceptible to the adverse consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure, and numerous studies have documented changes to brain anatomy and function, as well as ...
Eileen M. Moore, Yingjing Xia
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The association between neighborhood environment, prenatal exposure to alcohol and tobacco, and structural brain development [PDF]
Prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure affects child brain development. Less is known about how neighborhood environment (built, institutional, and social) may be associated with structural brain development and whether prenatal exposure to alcohol or ...
Yingjing Xia, Verónica M. Vieira
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Prenatal Nicotine/Alcohol Exposure and ADHD
A retrospective, hospital-based, case-control study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking, drug use, and alcohol was conducted in 280 ADHD cases and 242 non-ADHD controls at the ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Methodological Issues in Assessing the Impact of Prenatal Drug Exposure
Prenatal drug exposure is a common public health concern that can result in perinatal complications, birth defects, and developmental disorders. The growing literature regarding the effects of prenatal exposure to specific drugs such as tobacco, alcohol,
Carolien Konijnenberg
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Low dose prenatal ethanol exposure induces anxiety-like behaviour and alters dendritic morphology in the basolateral amygdala of rat offspring. [PDF]
Prenatal exposure to high levels of alcohol is strongly associated with poor cognitive outcomes particularly in relation to learning and memory. It is also becoming more evident that anxiety disorders and anxiety-like behaviour can be associated with ...
Carlie L Cullen +3 more
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NGF and BDNF Alterations by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure [PDF]
Background: It is now widely established that the devastating effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the embryo and fetus development cause marked cognitive and neurobiological deficits in the newborns. The negative effects of the gestational alcohol use have been well documented and known for some time ...
Carito Valentina +6 more
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