NEWS and ARTICLES
Reuters - Prenatal alcohol exposure
tied to balance, coordination problems
Children who are
diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are at higher risk of
having impaired gross motor skills, according to a review of past
studies.
The Cold Lake Sun - Living with FASD
is like "bubbles": speaker
The body of a
person with FASD is filled with bubbles, a speaker told those
gathered June 6 for the first day of a two-day conference on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
SmallCap Network
(Australia) - Australia Looks Into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Drinking alcohol
during pregnancy may cause lifelong disabilities. One of them is
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Health officials in Australia
are now pushing for greater awareness and response for people
diagnosed with FASD, especially those involved in court cases.
Medscape - Fetal
Alcohol Exposure Ups Motor Deficit Risk in Kids
Babies born to
women who engage in moderate to heavy alcohol consumption during
pregnancy are nearly 3 times more likely to develop gross motor (GM)
deficits than those born to mothers who abstained or drank little,
according to a review published online June 9 in Pediatrics.
ABC Local
(Australia) - Rebuilding a life damaged by alcohol before birth
Fitzroy Crossing
was the epicentre of a 2007 coroner's inquest into the deaths of 22
people. The subsequent report reads like a horror story. More than
half the deaths occurred in the Central Kimberley town, and most of
the deaths were by hanging or self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
ABA Journal (USA)
- Judge makes court instructions easier to understand for those
with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
A judge in Barrow,
Alaska, is trying to make courtroom proceedings easier to understand
for defendants who suffer brain damage caused by their mothers’
drinking during pregnancy.
New York Daily
News (USA) - Free pregnancy tests will be handed out at Alaska
bars for study
A $400,000 project
by the University of Alaska will track how women react to alcohol
warnings when paired with free pregnancy tests to curb fetal alcohol
syndrome.
Anchorage Daily
News (USA) - Elise Patkotak: Because of FASD, justice takes time
in Barrow courtroom
In the interest of
full disclosure, let me begin by saying that I've known Barrow
Superior Court Judge Michael Jeffery for well over 30 years. I first
met him when he arrived in Barrow as a legal services attorney.
Graphic Online
(Ghana) - Alcohol intake dangerous to foetus development
Research has
established that alcohol consumption by women in their reproductive
age can result in their unborn babies having permanent mental
disorders.
MATERIALS/VIDEOS
Indiegogo -
"Sensitive Souls" a film about young people with fetal
alcohol syndrome
Help us to
complete”Sensitive Souls” a film about young people with fetal
alcohol syndrome (FAS). Our goal in the documentary “Sensitive
Souls” is to create greater awareness and understanding for young
people diagnosed with FAS.
Neurodevnet - Eye
Tracking Shows Promise as Screening Tool for Children With FASD
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) affects the developing brain. Children with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience a variety of issues
resulting from fetal exposure to alcohol.
Anchorage Daily
News - Alcohol & Me: Terri Telkamp
CAPHC - Meconium
Screening to Detect Heavy Fetal Alcohol Exposure
RESEARCH
The International
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research - Evaluation of a three-year
Youth Outreach Program for Aboriginal outh with suspected Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The Youth Outreach
Program made an important contribution in developing and implementing
a program model for promoting positive change for highly marginalized
youth who display characteristics of FASD and have limited community
and family support.
Frontiers in
Genetics - Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their transmission
through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) are a group of related conditions that
arise from prenatal exposure to maternal consumption of the
teratogen, ethanol. It has been estimated that roughly 1% of children
in the US suffer from FASD (Sampson et al., 1997), though in some
world populations, such as inhabitants of some poorer regions of
South Africa, the rate can climb to as high as 20% (May et al.,
2013).
Alcohol - Chronic
ethanol exposure increases the non-dominant glucocorticoid,
corticosterone, in the near-term pregnant guinea pig
Maternal-fetal
signaling is critical for optimal fetal development and postnatal
outcomes. Chronic ethanol exposure alters programming of the fetal
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in a myriad of
neurochemical and behavioral alterations in postnatal life.
Alcohol - Prenatal
alcohol exposure alters expression of neurogenesis-related genes in
an ex vivo cell culture model
Prenatal alcohol
exposure can lead to long-lasting changes in functional and genetic
programs of the brain, which may underlie behavioral alterations seen
in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Aberrant fetal programming
during gestational alcohol exposure is a possible mechanism by which
alcohol imparts teratogenic effects on the brain; however, current
methods used to investigate the effects of alcohol on development
often rely on either direct application of alcohol in vitro or acute
high doses in vivo.
Alcoholism -
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Testosterone and Pubertal
Development
This study is the
first to show a relation between prenatal alcohol exposure and
increased testosterone during adolescence and evidence of decreased
testosterone responsiveness in tissues related to pubertal
development in humans. Further studies examining androgen receptor
expression and other hormonal and cellular factors affecting pubertal
development may reveal important mechanisms underlying these
teratogenic effects of alcohol exposure.
Neuroimage Clin -
Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the development of white
matter volume and change in executive function
Prenatal alcohol
exposure can cause a wide range of deficits in executive function
that persist throughout life, but little is known about how changes
in brain structure relate to cognition in affected individuals.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Terra Colombia
(Colombia) - Asocian la exposición prenatal al alcohol con
trastornos del equilibrio y la coordinación
Los niños con
trastorno del espectro alcohólico fetal (FASD, por su nombre en
inglés) tienen alto riesgo de padecer discapacidad de la motricidad
gruesa, según muestra una revisión de estudios previos.
Nordwest-Zeitung
(Germany) - Alkohol ein Risiko für Ungeborene
Unter Federführung
von Cord-Jürgen Bruns und Ehefrau Christa Bruns sowie Rita Otten von
der VHS-Kontaktstelle für Selbsthilfegruppen Cloppenburg haben
Eltern sowie Pflegeeltern von Kindern mit Fetaler
Alkoholspektrum-Störung (FASD) im Friesoyther St. Franziskus-Haus
die Selbsthilfegruppe Oldenburger Münsterland gegründet. Ziel ist
es, sich möglichst an jedem ersten Mittwoch im Monat zu treffen, um
sich gegenseitig zu informieren.
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