NEWS and ARTICLES
Medscape - Updated
Guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Updated clinical
guidelines for diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders,
field-tested in evaluations of 10,000 children in the United States,
South Africa, and Europe, provide more detail on learning and
behavioral deficits and include a new flowchart and a photographic
guide for lip and philtrum morphology. The new recommendations update
guidelines previously issued in 2005.
NOFAS (Ukraine) - NOFAS Affiliate
Spotlight: Ukraine Works Ltd
“What I need is
information about fetal alcohol,” Stephen Severylov, then Director
of the Mykolychin Internat, a boarding school for children with
special needs, told me in late September 2007. I had no idea what he
was talking about and as it turned out, neither did he.
Chicago Tribune (USA) - Kids harmed
by alcohol in the womb find haven in mom's suburban camp
They seem like
typical adolescents, and in many ways they are. But most of them said
it was the first time they'd been in a group of people who understand
them. For some, it was the first time they've met other people who
also have some form of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer
Press - Tiffany Morgan wants you to know she drank while pregnant
Sometimes
bystanders are curious when they see Tiffany Morgan’s 8-year-old
daughter have a meltdown at the playground. The conversation goes
like this: “Why is she doing that?” asks the stranger. “She has
FASD,” Morgan explains.
WDAZ - Drinks
worse than drugs for expecting mothers
A new study by a
local doctor is raising concern about the number of babies born in
North Dakota with fetal alcohol syndrome.
SelectScience.net
- Identification of Early Biomarkers for Alcohol Related Brain
Development Abnormalities
Dr Nune Darbinian,
Research Laboratory Manager at Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research
Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, told
SelectScience about brain development research that was recently
presented at the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study
Group/Research Society on Alcoholism (FASDSG/RSoA) and Society for
Neuroscience (SfN) symposia.
The Nation
Newspaper (Kenya) - Avoid alcohol, expectant mothers told
Expectant mothers
have been advised to stay away from beer and other alcoholic drinks.
This is because its potential negative impact on growing foetus can
lead to birth defects.
News-Medical.net -
Parental substance use increases health risks among children
Children whose
parents or caregivers misuse alcohol or use, produce or distribute
drugs face an increased risk of medical and behavioral problems.
According to a new clinical report by experts at Beth Israel Medical
Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children's Hospital, pediatricians are in a
unique position to assess risk and intervene to protect children.
ABC Online
(Australia) - Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosis tool
hoped to change lives of Australian victims
Australia finally
has a tool for diagnosing foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) —
a condition caused by mothers consuming alcohol while pregnant.
Edmonton Journal
(Canada) - Edmonton moms at risk get support from innovative,
inner city health program
The birth of her
baby girl should have been the happiest day of the young mom’s
life; instead, it became an agonizing experience.
VIDEO and
MATERIALS
Our Issues Twin
Cities - EPisode 64 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome FASD
According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every year, about
7,000 children are born in Minnesota with alcohol exposure before
birth, putting them at risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Erika Krings -
FASD - Der Drache (Verzweiflung, Wut und Angst)
This video is
about the impact of disability FAS covering 59 years of my life. This
image presentation describes a biography of love and failure of
concert successes and alcoholism, burnout and its aftermath.
YourAlberta -
Current Neuroplasticity Research and Ideas for Promoting Long Term
Functional Change
An overview of
current neuroplasticity research explaining the firing and wiring of
the nervous system. In addition, activity-based concepts are
discussed, including:
UPCOMING
EUFASD - European Conference on FASD
2016
Research
conference from 12 to 14 September 2016, Royal Holloway, University
of London. EUFASD Continuing professional training day, 15 September
2016, Royal Holloway, University of London.
The 7th International Conference on
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (March 1-4, 2017)
Call for abstracts
just announced. Deadline for all submissions are August 26, 2016.
RESEARCH
Dove Medical Press
- Fetal alcohol-spectrum disorders: identifying at-risk mothers
Fetal
alcohol-spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a collection of physical and
neurobehavioral disabilities caused by prenatal exposure to
alcohol. To prevent or mitigate the costly effects of FASD, we must
identify mothers at risk for having a child with FASD, so that we may
reach them with interventions.
Pediatrics -
Updated Clinical Guidelines for Diagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders
The purpose of the
current report is to present updated diagnostic guidelines based on a
thorough review of the literature and the authors’ combined
expertise based on the evaluation of >10 000 children for
potential FASD in clinical settings and in epidemiologic studies in
conjunction with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism–funded studies, the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and the Collaboration on FASD Prevalence.
OpenUCT - The
impact of fetal alcohol syndrome on a child's classroom performance :
a case study of a rural South African school
Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome (FAS) is the most severe of a spectrum of birth defects
caused by a mother drinking alcohol whilst pregnant. Its
manifestation in the Central Nervous System causes intellectual and
behavioural abnormalities, which pose considerable challenges in the
classroom.
Biology Open -
Alcohol exposure leads to unrecoverable cardiovascular defects
along with edema and motor function changes in developing zebrafish
larvae
In the present
study we exposed zebrafish embryos to 1% and 2% alcohol and observed
the morphology of heart and blood vessels during and after exposure
to investigate motor function alterations, and damage and recovery to
the cardiovascular system.
Nurse Practitioner
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Prevention, identification,
and intervention
This article
discusses methods for identifying and assisting women who consume
alcohol prenatally and referring infants and children with FASD for
intervention.
Journal of
Leukocyte Biology - Inflammatory responses to alcohol in the CNS:
nuclear receptors as potential therapeutics for alcohol-induced
neuropathologies
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder (FASD), which results from ethanol exposure during
pregnancy, and alcohol use disorder (AUD), which includes both binge
and chronic alcohol abuse, are strikingly common and costly at
personal and societal levels.
Cogent Psychology
- A systematic review of the prevalence of foetal alcohol syndrome
disorders among young people in the criminal justice system
Given the
established association between foetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD) and risk of criminality and criminalisation, this systematic
review examines the prevalence of FASD within youth justice systems.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - A Renewed Call to Action: The
Need for Systematic Research on Interventions for FASD
Journal of
Pediatrics and Child Health - Gross motor performance in children
prenatally exposed to alcohol and living in remote Australia
This study aimed
to determine the gross motor (GM) performance of Aboriginal children
living in remote Australia. The relationship between GM skills,
prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
(FASD) was explored.
Journal of
Obstetrics - Implications of Applying Minimal Risk Standards in
Clinical Research to Information Provision in Prenatal and
Pre-conception Care
There have long
been minimal risk thresholds beneath which risks may not need to be
discussed in clinical research. This threshold concept may be applied
to clinical practice. Our research explored application of minimal
risk standards in research regulations to providing information in
prenatal and pre-conception care.
St. Catherine
University - Professionals’ Perspectives on Substance Abuse and
Pregnancy
Drug use has
become an increasing issue in society, affecting a wide variety of
populations. Specifically, the use of substances has increasingly
been entering the lives of women during pregnancy.
Alcoholism -
Neurobehavioral Deficits Consistent Across Age and Sex in Youth
with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Neurobehavioral
consequences of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure are well documented;
however, the role of age or sex in these effects has not been
studied. The current study examined the effects of prenatal alcohol
exposure, sex, and age on neurobehavioral functioning in children.
Alcohol - Did
you drink alcohol during pregnancy? Inaccuracy and discontinuity of
women’s self-reports: On the way to establish meconium Ethyl
Glucuronide (EtG) as a biomarker for alcohol consumption during
pregnancy
During their 3rd
trimester, mothers of children with detectable EtG values ≥10 ng/g
tended to report prenatal alcohol consumption more frequently (p <
.10), but nearly never above “Yes, I drank rarely”. Asked
retrospectively, when children were 6 to 8 years of age, there was no
difference in self-reported behavior of EtG-positive vs. EtG-negative
cases.
Behavioral Health
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Youth Firesetting: A Need
for Increased Awareness and Understanding Among Fire Prevention and
Safety Specialists
Approximately two
to five percent of the U.S. population is affected by this
debilitating disorder, but many practitioners and professionals are
still widely unfamiliar with consequences caused by prenatal alcohol
exposure.
Behavioural Brain
Research - Effects of sex and housing on social, spatial, and
motor behavior in adult rats exposed to moderate levels of alcohol
during prenatal development
Persistent
deficits in social behavior, motor behavior, and behavioral
flexibility are among the major negative consequences associated with
exposure to ethanol during prenatal development.
IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
nrc.nl
(Netherlands) - ‘Alcohol verhoogt kans op crimineel kind’
‘De familie is
de bron van al het kwaad’, was de kop boven een driegesprek tussen
strafrechtadvocaten Peter Plasman, Inez Weski en Gerard Spong in
opinietijdschrift HP/De Tijd.
Süddeutsche.de
(Germany) - Die Gesundheit als politische Aufgabe
Nach ihrem
Verzicht auf eine neue Kandidatur zieht die Fürstenfeldbrucker
SPD-Landtagsabgeordnete Kathrin Sonnenholzner eine Halbzeit-Bilanz
ihrer Legislaturperiode und blickt zurück auf "zweieinhalb
Jahre Lust und Frust" als Vorsitzende des Ausschusses für
Gesundheit und Pflege.
CelleHeute
(Germany) - Das fetale Alkoholsyndrom – die unsichtbare
Behinderung
Eine Informations-
und Aufklärungsveranstaltung zum Thema „Das fetale Alkoholsyndrom
– die unsichtbare Behinderung, wie wirkt sie sich aus und was
brauchen Betroffene, Angehörige, pädagogische Fachkräfte,
Jugendämter und andere Behörden“ findet am Freitag, 12. August,
im 4 Generationen Park Wathlingen statt. Die Schirmherrschaft der
Veranstaltung hat die Niedersächsische Ministerin Cornelia Rundt
(Ministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit und Gleichstellung)
übernommen.
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