NEWS and ARTICLES
Southernminn.com (USA) - Parents of
children with fetal alcohol syndrome find lack of resources in
Faribault, out-state Minnesota
This is the second
of a two-part series on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, its cost to
the state and how state funding impacts access to community-based
healthcare services which vary from county to county.
Vibe Ghana (Ghana)
- International Confab on Fetal Alcohol Disorder opens
Research has shown
that alcohol consumption has dangerous consequences for females than
males and was responsible for the occurrence of some disabilities
among some children.
The Australian
(Australia) - Fetal syndrome ‘must be recognised as disability’
THE federal
government’s reluctance to recognise fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder as a disability had deprived many Aboriginal children of the
correct treatment.
Mesabi Daily News
(USA) - FAS catching eyeballs
A black billboard
containing the image of a glass of alcohol and a baby inside of a
caution sign is currently catching the eyes of individuals traveling
along Highway 169 near Fourth Avenue East.
Communitycare.co.uk
(UK) - Adults with alcohol-related brain damage ‘inappropriately’
placed in care homes, medics warn
Adults with
alcohol-related brain damage are being placed inappropriately in
nursing homes due to a lack of understanding about the condition
within health and social care, says a report by a group of leading
medical organisations.
Marlborough
Express (New Zealand) - '3000 babies affected' by mothers'
drinking
Children with
foetal alcohol syndrome are being all too commonly misdiagnosed,
leading to health complications and wasted resources.
Anchorage Daily
News - Carol Hatch steers six alcohol-damaged children into
adulthood
For a
quarter-century, Carol Hatch has lived in a big brown house off
Arctic Boulevard, raising a family not quite like any other in
Alaska.
wbur.org -
Addicted And Pregnant: 'The Most Heart-Wrenching Experience Of My
Life'
At the time, I had
been doing a lot of meth. I was fortunate if I remembered to eat one
meal a day. Refilling my birth-control prescription had become just
another missed detail in a life that had ceased to have much meaning
for me.
NIH Record -
NIAAA’s Warren Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Research
Society on Alcoholism has selected NIAAA deputy director Dr. Kenneth
R. Warren to receive the RSA Lifetime Achievement Award. The award
recognizes a person with a long, balanced career whose contributions
to alcohol research, training, service and advocacy have had a
lasting impact on the field.
Yukon Government
(Canada) - Yukon leads the country with the start of FASD
prevalence study
In partnership
with the Child & Family Research Institute at BC Children’s
Hospital and the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Department
of Justice has begun a study evaluating the prevalence of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in individuals who are incarcerated
or on probation in Yukon.
UPCOMING
Decoding FASD: Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder Conference - 14th October 2014
Decoding FASD:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Conference for health professional
(GPs, health visitors, nurses), social workers, foster carers,
teachers, parents and guardians.
Third European Conference on FASD -
20 to 22 October 2014
Building on the
success of the first European conference on FASD (Kerkrade,
Netherlands, 2010) and the second European conference on FASD
(Barcelona, Spain, 2012), we are pleased to announce the third
European conference on FASD, to be held in Rome.
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
YourAlberta -
Technology and FASD
Dr. Jacquie Pei
reviews new and existing research using technological innovations
with individuals with FASD and discusses new technology that may be
useful in FASD.
YourAlberta - FASD
and Criminal Responsibility
Dr. Vinesh Gupta
provides an overview of the concept of Not Criminally Responsible
(NCR) and the applicability of NCR defense for clients with FASD.
CBC News -
Groundbreaking FASD research in Manitoba gets $1.35M boost
Research efforts
in Canada and Israel to find ways to detect fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder (FASD) earlier in children have received a million-dollar
boost.
Canadian
Association of Paediatric Health Centres - Validation of the
Canadian-developed Screening Test for Behavioral Phenotype of FASD
We have recently
developed and validated a novel screening test for the Behavioural
Phenotype of FASD. Stemming from the CBCL, the original test is valid
only for 6-13 year old children.
YourAlberta -
Children's Mental Health Learning Series
Research about
parents with intellectual disability and their children is presented.
A discussion of strategies to build systems capacity to support
parents with intellectual disabilities and promote a healthy start to
life for their children is included.
National American
Indian & Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center -
Overview of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders BH May 2014
RESEARCH
American
Psychiatric Association - Fetal Alcohol Exposure Among African
Americans
Having worked with
poor, African-American patients in various educational, mental
health, correctional, and foster care settings for more than 40
years, I feel obligated to draw attention to a major public health
phenomenon that plagues these populations: fetal alcohol exposure
(FAE). FAE is a hidden epidemic in poor African-American communities,
where liquor stores are a ubiquitous and thriving business.
MidwiferyJournal.com
- Alcohol consumption during pregnancy: Cross-sectional
survey
In this study
pregnant women attending an antenatal appointment were willing to
complete brief alcohol screening questionnaires. A minority of women
reported drinking pre-conception and/or during the first trimester
with a small percentage drinking at levels potentially harmful to the
fetus.
TheClinics.com -
Substance Abuse During Pregnancy
This issue of
Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America deals with the
timely subject of substance use during pregnancy. Alcohol, tobacco,
and illicit drug use is prevalent among reproductive-age women. Even
though a reduction in use often occurs during pregnancy, many women
continue to use substances until a pregnancy is either actually
diagnosed or well underway. Patient interviews and urine toxicologic
testing at the initial prenatal visit and at delivery suggest that
substance use during pregnancy ranges from 0.4% to 27%, depending on
the population surveyed.
Alcoholism - An
Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanism of Calcium-Dependent Neurotoxicity
in a Zebrafish Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
The calcium/CaMKII
mechanism of EtOH's neurotoxicity is shared between an amniote
(chick) and teleost fish, indicating that this mechanism is
evolutionarily conserved. Our data suggest that EtOHext
concentrations >2% (v/v) for chorion-intact embryos and 1.5% (v/v)
for dechorionated embryos have limited clinical relevance. The strong
parallels with established models endorse the zebrafish's relevance
for mechanistic studies of EtOH's developmental neurotoxicity.
Alcoholism - A
Screen of Zebrafish Mutants Identifies Ethanol-Sensitive Genetic Loci
Our results
provide insight into the gene–EtOH interactions that may underlie
EtOH teratogenesis. They support previous findings that EtOH disrupts
elongation of the embryonic axis. Importantly, these results show
that the zebrafish is an efficient model with which to test for
gene–EtOH interactions. Understanding these interactions will be
crucial to understanding of the FASD variation.
Alcohol - Chronic
intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence: effects on social
behavior and ethanol sensitivity in adulthood
This study
assessed long-lasting consequences of repeated ethanol exposure
during two different periods of adolescence on 1) baseline levels of
social investigation, play fighting, and social preference and 2)
sensitivity to the social consequences of acute ethanol challenge.
Alcoholism -
Differential Effects of the Histamine H3 Receptor Agonist
Methimepip on Dentate Granule Cell Excitability, Paired-Pulse
Plasticity and Long-Term Potentiation in Prenatal Alcohol-Exposed
Rats
We previously
reported that prenatal alcohol-induced deficits in dentate gyrus (DG)
long-term potentiation (LTP) are ameliorated by the histamine H3
receptor inverse agonist ABT-239. ABT-239 did not enhance LTP in
control rats, suggesting that the possibility of a heightened H3
receptor-mediated inhibition of LTP in prenatal alcohol-exposed (PAE)
offspring.
Alcoholism - Brief
Prenatal Ethanol Exposure Alters Behavioral Sensitivity to the Kappa
Opioid Receptor Agonist (U62,066E) and Antagonist (Nor-BNI) and
Reduces Kappa Opioid Receptor Expression
Overall, these
data suggest that prenatal EtOH affects kappa opioid function and
expression and that these changes may be involved in increased
drinking later in life.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
State of Mind
(Italy) - Sindrome alcolica fetale e problemi di attenzione: è
possible che vengano sovrastimati?
I ricercatori
della McGill University di Montréal, Canada, hanno suggerito che
spesso i problemi attentivi dei bambini con Sindrome Alcolica Fetale
(FASD) vengano riportati in modo eccessivo da genitori e insegnanti.
Badische Zeitung
(Germany) - Fatale Folgen für das Kind
Können Sie sich
jemanden vorstellen, der seinem Baby alkoholische Getränke ins
Fläschchen gibt? Schon bei dieser Frage schütteln doch die meisten
entsetzt mit dem Kopf. Nichts sehr viel anderes ist aber der Konsum
von Alkohol während der Schwangerschaft.
inSüdthüringen.de
(Germany) - Ein Püppchen, das wach rütteln soll
Brita Siebert
entwarf für Heike Kramer, Vorstand der Ärztlichen Gesellschaft für
Gesundheitsförderung ein Baby, das die Folgen von Alkoholkonsums in
der Schwangerschaft deutlich zeigt.
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