Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Policy Perspective
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (fasd)
Establishing a unique neurobehavioural profile for people exposed to alcohol in utero would be a tremendous aid in diagnosis, treatment planning and epidemiological research. Epidemiological studies of fetal alcohol syndrome have shown that only one?third of the babies born to mothers who drank heavily during pregnancy presented with full-blown FAS. 2 Moreover, the majority of people who were e...
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Forty years ago, alcohol was not commonly recognized as a teratogen, an agent that can disrupt the development of a fetus. Today, we understand that prenatal alcohol exposure induces a variety of adverse effects on physical, neurological, and behavioral development. Research supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has contributed to the identification of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/0706743718773706