Medical Daily -
Drinking While Pregnant Causes Slow Brain Growth, Learning
Difficulties Over Time
Pregnant women may
find the nine months they’re carrying a baby difficult, but when it
comes to how to be pregnant, there are only a few major rules to live
by: eat right, exercise, and avoid caffeine, drugs, and alcohol.
wlfi.com - Special
Olympic athlete competing to be on cover of Runner’s World
Born with fetal
alcohol syndrome, the accomplished runner overcame mental and
physical challenges to excel on his middle and high school cross
country teams before joining Special Olympics Indiana.
Alaska Native News
- Governor Signs Midwife, FASD Legislation
In a move to
ensure greater public safety in the field of midwifery, Governor Sean
Parnell signed Senate Bill 156 into law. Sponsored by Senator Pete
Kelly, the legislation updates the Certified Direct-Entry Midwife
Practice Act. Additionally, the bill requires a certified
direct-entry midwife to be licensed, practicing for two years, and
attend 50 or more births as a primary or assistant midwife before
being able to supervise an apprentice direct-entry midwife.
ABC Online
(Australia) - Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder inquiry told men
drinking could be as much to blame as women
An inquiry on
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has been told men could be
just as responsible for causing the condition as women.
IANS - Mother's
alcohol consumption may make kids dull
Expecting mothers
may give their drinking glass a goodbye kiss as researchers have
found that parental alcohol exposure weakens brain activation in
their children.
Yahoo!7 News
(Australia) - NT govt focusing on pregnant drinkers
High-flying career
women in the inner city and Aboriginal women living in remote
communities are both looking down the barrel of the same gun: the
risk of having babies with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
Consumer Health
Research - FASD Social Skills Training: For Children and Parents
FASD, Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, is a disorder that causes many children
and adolescents who had pre-natal exposure to alcohol have difficulty
developing friendships and social skills. Many do not know how to
pick friends or initiate conversations.
MATERIALS, VIDEOS
International FASD day packet
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in part by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. The contents of this packet are
the sole responsibility of the organizations that developed it and do
not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
RESEARCH
Front. Genet -
Genomic factors that shape craniofacial outcome and neural crest
vulnerability in FASD
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) causes distinctive facial characteristics in some
pregnancies and not others; genetic factors may contribute to this
differential vulnerability. Ethanol disrupts multiple events of
neural crest development, including induction, survival, migration,
and differentiation.
Science Daily -
Prenatal alcohol exposure alters development of brain function:
Neural basis for symptoms of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
In the first study
of its kind, Prapti Gautam, PhD, and colleagues from The Saban
Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles found that
children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) showed weaker
brain activation during specific cognitive tasks than their
unaffected counterparts.
Neuroscience -
Prenatal ethanol exposure differentially affects hippocampal
neurogenesis in the adolescent and aged brain
Exposure to
ethanol in utero is associated with a myriad of sequelae for the
offspring. Some of these effects are morphological in nature and
noticeable from birth, while others involve more subtle changes to
the brain that only become apparent later in life when the
individuals are challenged cognitively.
Cereb. Cortex -
Developmental Trajectories for Visuo-Spatial Attention are Altered
by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: A Longitudinal FMRI Study
Functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals brain activation
abnormalities during visuo-spatial attention and working memory among
those with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in cross-sectional
reports, but little is known about how activation changes over time
during development within FASD or typically developing children.
Alcohol - Impact
of Combined Prenatal Ethanol and Prenatal Stress Exposures on Markers
of Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in Rat Dentate Gyrus
Prenatal ethanol
exposure and prenatal stress can each cause long-lasting deficits in
hippocampal synaptic plasticity and disrupt learning and memory
processes. However, the mechanisms underlying these perturbations
following a learning event are still poorly understood.
Alcoholism - Fetal
Alcohol Programming of Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin System by
Epigenetic Mechanisms and Later Life Vulnerability to Stress
Hypothalamic
proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons, one of the major regulators of
the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, immune functions, and
energy homeostasis, are vulnerable to the adverse effects of fetal
alcohol exposure (FAE).
Alcohol and
Alcoholism - Prenatal Ethanol Exposure Up-Regulates the
Cholesterol Transporters ATP-Binding Cassette A1 and G1 and Reduces
Cholesterol Levels in the Developing Rat Brain
Maternal ethanol
consumption may affect fetal brain development by increasing
cholesterol transporters’ expression and reducing brain cholesterol
levels.
Paediatric and
Perinatal Epidemiology - Maternal Alcohol Consumption during
Pregnancy and the Risk of Orofacial Clefts in Infants: a Systematic
Review and Meta-Analysis
The teratogenic
effects of maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy include
anomalies of craniofacial structures derived from the cranial neural
crest cells. The presence of specific craniofacial anomalies
contributes to the diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
BMC Pregnancy and
Childbirth - Alcohol brief interventions in Scottish antenatal
care: a qualitative study of midwives’ attitudes and practices
Midwives
recognised the important role they could play in alcohol intervention
activities in antenatal care. As the majority of women stop consuming
alcohol in pregnancy, many will not need an ABI.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
nowiny.pl (Poland)
- Biskupi przeciwko pijaństwu: Kochająca matka zawsze trzeźwa
Trwamy w
dziękczynieniu za historyczną kanonizację Jana Pawła II, który
uczył nas, że święci nie przemijają, lecz pragną naszej
świętości. Podejmujemy osobisty i narodowy rachunek sumienia z
wierności słowom naszego nowego Świętego - czytamy w Apelu
Zespołu Konferencji Episkopatu Polski ds. Apostolstwa Trzeźwości
na sierpień 2014 r.
AGI - Agenzia
Giornalistica Italia (Italy) - Alcol: esposizione prenatale altera
sviluppo cervello
I bambini con
Disturbo dello spettro fetale alcolico (Fasd) potrebbero avere
problemi nello sviluppo del cervello. Uno studio del The Saban
Research Institute of Children's Hospital di Los Angeles ha infatti
scoperto che il Fasd e' legato a un'attivazione piu' debole del
cervello durante compiti cognitivi specifici.
STERN.DE (Germany)
- Mit diesen Schäden müssen Kinder leben
Ein Glas Sekt kann
Folgen haben. Welche, das beschreibt "Zeit Online" anhand
der Geschichte von Lisa. Die Zwölfjährige wird nie normal leben
können, weil ihre Mutter in der Schwangerschaft trank.
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