NEWS and ARTICLES
SBS (Australia) - Foetal alcohol
syndrome victim calls on pregnant women not to drink
When it comes to
the dangers of drinking alcohol while pregnant, the message may not
be getting through. Australian researchers say only two out of three
women know that alcohol can affect their unborn child.
Parent Herald -
Alcohol During Pregnancy Damages Learning and Memory in Children,
Study Finds
A team of
researchers from Xinxiang Medical University in China found that
maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy damaged learning and
memory in children.
Voice of America
(South Africa) - Mentally Disabled Women Endure Intense Abuse in
South Africa
They’re mentally
ill or disabled, suffering from conditions such as cerebral palsy and
fetal alcohol syndrome. The women are at Ikhaya Loxolo, “Home of
Peace,” a collection of mud huts in the district of Hobeni in a
particularly isolated part of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.
EurekAlert - FASD
impacts brain development throughout childhood and adolescence not
just at birth
Medical
researchers at the University of Alberta recently published findings
showing that brain development is delayed throughout childhood and
adolescence for people born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
(FASD).
Alaska Dispatch
(Canada) - Senior Nunavut judge urges territory to help inmates
with FASD
An offender
suffering from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will have a
hard time getting treatment in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of
Nunavut because there are no programs for the disorder in the
territory’s correctional system.
The Guardian (UK)
- A day in the life of ... a health charity executive director
Our charity, the
National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, supports people
who have foetal alcohol-related disabilities as well as their
families, and I'm a pretty hands-on type of person so no two days are
the same.
Ninemsn
(Australia) - GPs fail to warn drinking mums, prof says
GPs have been too
concerned about offending people to warn women of the dangers of
drinking while pregnant, leaving their unborn children at risk of
birth defects, a professor of pediatrics says.
Scotland on Sunday
(Scotland) - Alcohol syndrome babies slip through safety net
LARGE numbers of
children in Scotland affected by their mothers drinking alcohol
during pregnancy have not been diagnosed, experts suspect.
National Magazine
(Canada) - Court system an abusive one for victims of FASD
The criminal
justice system can be an abusive one for children and adults with the
kind of disability that robs them the ability to foresee the
consequences of their actions, says a lawyer who is intimately
acquainted with the problem.
Labcanada (Canada)
- $1.7M project examines genetic roots of FASD
The Canadian
Institutes of Health Research has awarded $1.37 million in funding to
a team at the University of Manitoba that is led by James Davie,
Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Chromatin Dynamics.
UPCOMING EVENTS
First International Conference on
Prevention of FASD
This is the first
international conference to address the primary, secondary and
tertiary prevention of FASD. Plenary sessions will promote discussion
and reflection on promising and innovative approaches for preventing
FASD, such as policies and programs to address alcohol use and the
social determinants of health.
MOFAS - 2013
FASD matters conference: exploring the spectrum November 14-15, 2013
The Minnesota
Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (MOFAS) is the statewide
organization serving as the leading voice and resource on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Minnesota – standing up for the
rights of the FASD community, providing education and training so
FASD is better understood and working to ensure that all women know
that there is no safe level of alcohol use during pregnancy.
Living With FASD 2013 Summit,
September 9 2013
The purpose of
this telesummit is to provide families with information about
practical strategies to implement at home, based on the newest FASD
research. Speakers have been specially selected because they have
experience on a professional level and also have first-hand
experience raising children with FASD.
Interprofessional
Continuing Education - 6th National
Biennial Conference on Adolescence and adults with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders - Call for Abstracts
he conference does
not cover honoraria, accommodation, travel or other associated
expenses. However, the primary presenter of 3-hour/90-minute
abstracts willreceive complimentary registration to the conference
(~$600 value).
VIDEOS, MATERIALS
Youtube - FASD
COMMUNITIES, informational video by Elizabeth H.
Many young adults
grow up with FASD and have problems adjusting to life after school.
FASD Communities is a 501c(3) organization that raises funds to
establish group homes for this growing population of young adults.
sydney.edu.au - A
success story - a community led collaboration with remote indigenous
Australia
‘Our children
are our greatest asset’ says Professor Elizabeth Elliott,
paediatrician at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Westmead,
and Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of
Sydney. Yet many children suffer brain damage even before they are
born, through exposure to alcohol in the womb.
RESEARCH
PubMed - Involving
consumers and the community in the development of a diagnostic
instrument for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Australia
The successful
involvement of consumers and the community in the FASD Project can be
attributed to active consumer and community participation, which
included continued involvement throughout the project, funding of
participation activities, and an understanding of the various
contributions by the Collaboration members.
Educational
Psychology in Practice - Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: as
prevalent as autism?
An examination of
the literature on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and its
relevance to the work of Educational Psychologists (EPs) suggested
that the impact of FASD on EPs’ casework is an area which has been
underexplored, and which merits further attention.
Brain Sciences -
Drug-Induced Apoptosis: Mechanism by which Alcohol and Many Other
Drugs Can Disrupt Brain Development
Maternal ingestion
of alcohol during pregnancy can cause a disability syndrome termed
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which may include
craniofacial malformations, structural pathology in the brain, and a
variety of long-term neuropsychiatric disturbances.
Alcoholism - Early
Fetal Binge Alcohol Exposure Predicts High Behavioral Symptom Scores
in 5.5-Year-Old Children
Fetal binge
alcohol exposure has been associated with neurobehavioral and
cognitive symptoms. This study explored whether binge drinking mainly
before recognition of pregnancy predicted high symptom scores on the
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in 5.5-year-old
children.
Alcohol - Neonatal
ethanol exposure results in dose-dependent impairments in the
acquisition and timing of the conditioned eyeblink response and
altered cerebellar interpositus nucleus and hippocampal CA1 unit
activity in adult rats
Exposure to
ethanol in neonatal rats results in reduced neuronal numbers in the
cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei of juvenile and adult animals. This
reduction in cell numbers is correlated with impaired delay eyeblink
conditioning (EBC), a simple motor learning task in which a neutral
conditioned stimulus (CS; tone) is repeatedly paired with a
co-terminating unconditioned stimulus (US; periorbital shock).
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