Pincher Creek Echo (Canada) - Local
learning about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
It is a
devastating condition that affects 36,000 Albertans. It can affect
memory, create permanent nerve damage and learning disabilities. It
is completely incurable, yet, 100 per cent preventable.
ABC Online
(Australia) - Teen runaway with FASD ended up drowned, eaten by
shark or crocodile
A 15-year-old
Indigenous boy in state care who drowned and then had his body mauled
by a crocodile or shark in Western Australia's top end was suffering
foetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD), a coronial inquest has
heard.
The Northern Daily
Leader (Australia) - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder rife in
Tamworth region
The Tamworth
region is suffering at the hands of a completely preventable disorder
that results in cognitive, physical, and social disabilities in
children, and a local health professional is screaming out for more
to be done.
Alaska Public
Radio Network (USA) - Preventing fetal alcohol exposure and its
effects
On this Line One
program the focus is on efforts to prevent fetal alcohol exposure and
its effects. We will discuss local and national efforts and the
challenges to preventing the lifelong effects that alcohol can cause
in the developing fetus.
Neurology Advisor
- Animal Model Shows Reversal of Fetal Alchohol Syndrome Effects
Animal research
may have yielded a potential treatment for fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder in children; the new report was published in Molecular
Psychiatry.
SalemNews.net
(USA) - Moms-to-be and addiction present special needs
Every day there
are women who make the decision to stop abusing substances. Most
women who use illicit drugs don’t plan to become pregnant. They may
not even know they are, and those early weeks of pregnancy are
crucial as the baby’s organs are developing.
Social Justice
Solutions - Major Breakthrough on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has Huge
Implications for Child Welfare System
One or two decades
from now, we might look back at a Northwestern University study
completed this month as a major turning point in the history of child
welfare, foster care and adoption.
Creating a Family
- 5 Sanity Saving Tips for Kids with Fetal Alcohol Disorders
(FASD)
Many adoptive
parents are faced with the decision of adopting a child that has been
or may have been exposed to alcohol during pregnancy. Many others are
in the midst of parenting kids that have been prenatally exposed to
alcohol.
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
ACOGNews - “What
You Should Tell Her?” -- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Prevention Project
Alcohol use during
pregnancy is a common area of concern for expectant women. The
patient is receiving multiple opinions from her relatives and friends
on whether or not she should indulge in drinking during her
pregnancy.
ACOGNews - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention: Promoting Screening &
Brief Intervention
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) are the full spectrum of birth defects
caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. One prevention challenge is that
women receive mixed messages regarding the risks of alcohol use
during pregnancy.
Kortney Gehlert -
The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Effects
Improvisation
Institute - Community Improv FASD & Social Isolation
This project is
lead by Dr. Michelle Stewart and Dr. Rebecca Caines with the
University of Regina. The community-based research project starts
with the premise that people living with FASD are the experts on
FASD, and hold artistic and imaginative potential to harness unique
improvisation skills such as impulse, imaginative narrative, and
spontaneity.
RESEARCH
Chemosphere -
Developmental ethanol exposure impairs locomotor movement in
Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) larvae targeting epigenome
Evidence indicated
ethanol exposure during development disrupts brain functions that
induces fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) phenotypes with
behavioral abnormalities.
Biochemistry and
Cell Biology - Age-Related Differences in Neuropsychological
Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-sectional
Study
This
cross-sectional study examined six key areas of neuropsychological
functioning (cognitive, academic, attention, executive function,
adaptive skills) comparing adolescents and school-age children with
prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE).
Biochemistry and
Cell Biology - FASD: Folic acid and Formic Acid - An unholy
alliance in the alcohol abusing mother
Alcohol
consumption during pregnancy remains a significant cause of
preventable birth defects and developmental disabilities, however,
the mechanism of toxicity remains unclear.
Journal of Food
Science - Turmeric Extract Rescues Ethanol-Induced Developmental
Defect in the Zebrafish Model for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
(FASD)
Prenatal ethanol
exposure causes the most frequent preventable birth disorder, fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). The effect of turmeric extracts in
rescuing an ethanol-induced developmental defect using zebrafish as a
model was determined.
Journal of
Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology - Human Brain
Abnormalities Associated With Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder (FASD) is a common neurodevelopmental problem, but
neuropathologic descriptions are rare and focused on the extreme
abnormalities.
American Journal
of Occupational Therapy - Functional and Neuropsychological
Assessment in Adults With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
The first study to
investigate functional abilities in adults with fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder advanced knowledge in three ways: (1) Psychosocial
skills have to be tested for guiding treatments, (2) functional
skills explain the severity of disease, and (3) the psychosocial
element has to be added to the diagnostic guidelines.
Psychiatry,
Psychology and Law - Assessment and Evaluation of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and its Potential Relevance for Sentencing:
A Clarion Call from Western Australia
LCM was a child of
15 whose diagnosis of FASD was not made prior to his being sentenced
for the senseless and brutal manslaughter of his infant son. The
diagnosis arrived at by a multidisciplinary team shortly before his
appeal to the Western Australian Court of Appeal in LCM v The State
of Western Australia [2016] WASCA 164 resulted in a significant
reduction in his sentence.
Biochimica et
Biophysica Acta - Ethanol-induced Damage to the Developing Spinal
Cord: The Involvement of CCR2 Signaling
Ethanol exposure
during development causes fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). A
large body of evidence shows that ethanol produces multiple
abnormalities in the developing central nervous system (CNS), such as
smaller brain size, reduced volume of cerebral white matter,
permanent loss of neurons, and alterations in synaptogenesis and
myelinogenesis.
University of
South Australia - Decreasing alcohol consumption among pregnant
women in Australia: The effectiveness of a public health approach
This research
utilised a mixed methods design to explore the knowledge and
attitudes of pregnant women and their partners on the topic of
alcohol consumption during pregnancy; the nature of the information
that is available to women about alcohol consumption during
pregnancy; and evaluated the effectiveness of a public health
intervention.
Journal of
Substance Abuse Treatment - Convergence of online daily diaries
and timeline followback among women at risk for alcohol exposed
pregnancy
Researchers and
clinicians interested in assessing drinking and unprotected sex in
evaluating risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancy (AEP) have limited
options.
EAST CAROLINA
UNIVERSITY - The Use of Trace Eyeblink Classical Conditioning to
Assess Hippocampal Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders
Trace eyeblink
classical conditioning (ECC) was used to assess hippocampal-dependent
associative learning in adult rats that were administered a high
concentration (11.9% v/v) of alcohol during early neonatal brain
development.
Brain Research -
Effect of prenatal exposure to ethanol on the pyramidal tract in
developing rats
Prenatal exposure
to ethanol induces a relative increase in the numbers of pyramidal
tract axons relative to the number of corticospinal projection
neurons in somatosensory/motor cortices in the adult rat.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
innsalzach24.de
(Germany) - Lehrreiche Mitmach-Ausstellung für Fachleute und
Schülerinnen
Mühldorf a. Inn -
Rund 50 Pädagogen aus verschiedenen Einrichtungen und
Beratungsstellen waren nach Mühldorf gekommen, um sich mit dem Thema
„Fetale Alkoholspektrumstörung“, kurz FASD, auseinanderzusetzen.
NOZ - Neue
Osnabrücker Zeitung (Germany) - 6700 Euro für FASD-Selbsthilfe
Lingen
Lingen. Die
Krankenkasse DAK-Gesundheit in Lingen unterstützt die Arbeit der
Selbsthilfegruppe FASD mit 6200 Euro.
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