Benzinga (Canada) - Parliament One
Step Closer: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder & The Criminal Code
The Canadian
justice system is one step closer to recognising the potential
impacts of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. This week the Canada
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network (CanFASD) was
acknowledged by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice and
Human Rights as a 'vital' contributor in its report on Bill C-583, An
Act to Amend the Criminal Code.
Scoop.co.nz (New
Zealand) - Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Statistics on the Rise
Health and
community workers across Northland are concerned at the growing
number of young people who are being diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD). At a forum on ‘FASD and Justice’ held
in Whangarei last Friday, attended by more than 120 people, concerns
were raised about the suspected number of children that may be
affected by their mothers drinking during pregnancy in the region.
3News NZ (New
Zealand) - Judge: NZ courts ill-equipped for foetal alcohol cases
What's Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)? Had our courts known the answer
twenty years ago, Teina Pora would have likely led a very different
life.
Logan Daily News -
Speaking of Your Health: Alcohol and drug-related birth defects
May 10-16 was
Alcohol & Drug-Related Birth Defects Awareness Week. The National
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) plays a major and
vital role across the US in educating people, especially women, about
the dangers of consuming alcohol and using drugs during pregnancy.
Neurology Advisor
- Fetal Alcohol Exposure Influences Brain Structure, Gene Function
Alcohol consumed
early on in pregnancy may affect gene function in the brains of
offspring, findings from a mouse model indicate.
Los Angeles Times
(USA) - Raising a foster child damaged by alcohol
In three weeks,
Kathryn White's son Chris will turn 18. There will be a little
birthday celebration — and a hint of desperation.
MATERIALS
KNOWFASD -
KnowFASD
This site
introduces the neurobehavioural difficulties that may appear
throughout the lifespan of individuals with FASD. It is important to
recognize that, being a spectrum disorder, FASD can look different
for different individuals.
RESEARCH
PLoS One - Pre-
and postnatal exposure to moderate levels of ethanol can have
long-lasting effects on hippocampal glutamate uptake in adolescent
offspring
The developing
brain is vulnerable to the effects of ethanol. Glutamate is the main
mediator of excitatory signals in the brain and is probably involved
in most aspects of normal brain function during development.
Synapse -
Voluntary exercise partially reverses neonatal alcohol-induced
deficits in mPFC Layer II/III dendritic morphology of male adolescent
rats
Developmental
alcohol exposure in humans can produce a wide range of deficits
collectively referred to as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
FASD-related impairments in executive functioning later in life
suggest long-term damage to the prefrontal cortex (PFC).
PLoS One - Early
maternal alcohol consumption alters hippocampal DNA methylation, gene
expression and volume in a mouse model
The adverse
effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy are known, but the
molecular events that lead to the phenotypic characteristics are
unclear. To unravel the molecular mechanisms, we have used a mouse
model of gestational ethanol exposure, which is based on maternal ad
libitum ingestion of 10% (v/v) ethanol for the first 8 days of
gestation (GD 0.5-8.5). Early neurulation takes place by the end of
this period, which is equivalent to the developmental stage early in
the fourth week post-fertilization in human.
PLoS One -
Placental fatty acid ethyl esters are elevated with maternal
alcohol use in pregnancies complicated by prematurity
The accumulation
of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) in meconium of term newborns has
been described as one potential biomarker of maternal alcohol use
during pregnancy. FAEEs accumulate in multiple alcohol-exposed fetal
tissues and in the placenta.
Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Predictors of
maternal drinking trajectories before and after pregnancy: evidence
from a longitudinal study
Little is known
about patterns of change in alcohol consumption and predictors of
these patterns over the prenatal to postnatal period.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Computer-delivered screening
and brief intervention for alcohol use in pregnancy: a pilot
randomized trial
Although screening
and brief intervention (SBI) for unhealthy alcohol use has
demonstrated efficacy in some trials, its implementation has been
limited.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Süddeutsche.de
(Germany) - Fast jede fünfte Schwangere trinkt Alkohol
Schon kleine
Mengen Alkohol während der Schwangerschaft können dem Ungeborenen
schaden. Dennoch trinken nach Daten des Robert-Koch-Instituts zufolge
fast 20 Prozent der schwangeren Frauen Alkohol.
Side2 (Norway) -
Fredriks (16) mor drakk alkohol mens hun var gravid. Det fikk han
betale for
Fredrik Langbakk
(16) svarer spørsmålet «Hvordan føles det å måtte betale for
feilene din mor begikk allerede før du ble født?».
Frankfurter
Rundschau (Germany) - Darum ist die Alkoholsucht so gefährlich
Keine Frage, gegen
ein schnelles Feierabendbier mit Freunden ist nichts einzuwenden.
Doch regelmäßiger Alkoholkonsum sollte auf keinen Fall unterschätzt
werden. Aus dem aktuellen Drogen- und Suchtbericht 2015 geht hervor,
dass in Deutschland jährlich rund 74.000 Menschen an den Folgen von
Alkohol-Missbrauch sterben.
Savon Sanomat
(Finland) - Turvallista rajaa ei taida olla
Yksi syntyy
riemuun ja toinen murheeseen. Eino Leinon yli satavuotiaan runon
sanat ovat ajankohtaiset ja totta synnytyssaleissa kaikkialla
nykyajan Suomessa. Syyllinen on alkoholi.
