National Post - How two generations
coped with a FASD diagnosis
Very little was
known about FASD when Dolores gave birth to Kim in 1971. Now Dolores
is helping raise Kim’s daughter Sarah, who is also living with
FASD.
National Post -
PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO ALCOHOL AFFECTS A MILLION CANADIANS. WHY IT’S
TIME TO START TACKLING OUR HIDDEN DRINKING PROBLEM
It’s been 45
years since researchers revealed the risks of drinking during
pregnancy. But as Vanessa Hrvatin reports, rates of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder are three times higher than previously believed —
just as more women are drinking, and drinking more, than ever before.
National Post -
WHY THE MOST COMMON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY IN CANADA IS
MISDIAGNOSED OR MISSED — AND THE DEVASTATING RESULTS
FASD is associated
with a bewildering number of symptoms. But as Vanessa Hrvatin writes,
the biggest barrier to early detection and treatment may be social
not biological.
Regina Leader-Post
(Canada) - Frank talk on the stigma of FASD at a Vancouver shelter
“Every time I
picked up the pipe and lighter, I hated myself.” Meet the women
raising babies after fighting alcohol and drug addictions.
National Post - 'A
BROKEN SYSTEM': ADOPTIVE FAMILIES SAY CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES ARE
FAILING ON FASD
Kids in care
suffer disproportionately from prenatal exposure to alcohol. But
prospective parents say they are too often in the dark about what’s
ahead of them. As Vanessa Hrvatin discovers, that can lead to
heartbreaking outcomes.
Ottawa Citizen
(Canada) - Living with FASD: Adoptive parents share strategies
they learned from their three children
The Mores have
learned what helps their kids best — but it’s not always been
easy. The story of the Smith Falls, Ont., family is just one in our
series on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
The West
Australian (Australia) - Northern exposure for FASD aid
Raised in
Anchorage, Alaska, by her grandparents, alarm bells rang for
nine-month-old Tami Eller’s carers when it became clear her head
was not growing.
Winnipeg Sun
(Canada) - How these Winnipeg classrooms are rethinking lessons
for kids with FASD
‘They’re just
kids that are coming to school. They just want to be accepted and be
successful.’
Daily Mail (USA) -
Rise in US pregnant women drinking alcohol: 1 in 9 occasionally
drink and 4% binge-drink, CDC report says
The rate of women
are drinking alcohol while pregnant has gone up in the United States,
new data show.
Science Daily - No
safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
An international
group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in
finding the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder. New work using chaos theory to analyze brain
signals shows the long-term effects.
VIDEOS AND
MATERIALS
ColleMcvoy - The
Quest to End Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders One Fact at a Time
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) are the most common form of preventable
brain injury in babies. Yet one in 20 children has FASD.
Calgary
Herald - Disorder with 1,000 faces: The Calgary clinic
diagnosing patients with FASD
Experts at a
Calgary clinic discuss the rigorous testing that goes into diagnosing
patients with FASD.
Health Nexus Santé
- FASD Web Tutorial – Services
The purpose of
this short video is to help user understand how to search for
services on the www.fasdon.ca website.
NEWS-on-Tour -
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Alkohol in der
Schwangerschaft! Wie schädlich ist wirklich? Caritas Oberberg klärt
auf... esperanza Schwangerschafts-/Eltern- und Väterberatung des
Caritasverbandes für den Oberbergischen Kreis e.V., Talstraße 1,
51643 Gummersbach
ThinkTech Hawaii -
Drinking and Gestating (Family Affairs)
NavNeuro - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – With Dr. Jeffrey Wozniak
Today we give an
overview of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), which includes a
collection of disorders that occur when a fetus is exposed to
alcohol. We discuss this topic with Jeffrey Wozniak, Ph.D., a
neuropsychologist with extensive research and clinical experience in
FASD.
nasgp - Alcohol
exposure prenatally and its effects on children and young people
This is a
guideline on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder from SIGN outlining the
assessment and management of children who have had prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE). It was published in Jan 2019.
RESEARCH
Alcoholism - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A review of the neurobehavioral deficits
associated with prenatal alcohol exposure
This paper
provides a comprehensive review of the cognitive and behavioral
outcomes of prenatal alcohol exposure, including domains of general
intelligence, executive functioning, language development, learning
and memory, adaptive functioning, academic performance, and
concurrent psychopathology.
Alcoholism - Are
low to moderate average alcohol consumption and isolated episodes of
binge drinking in early pregnancy associated with facial features
related to fetal alcohol syndrome in five‐year‐old children?
These findings
suggest that low to moderate levels of PAE or isolated binge
exposures may place some fetuses at risk for FAS/PFAS. Thus,
conservative advice is still for women to abstain from alcohol
consumption during pregnancy.
WALDEN
DISSERTATIONS AND DOCTORAL STUDIES - Preconception Health and
Preterm Birth Differences Among U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born
Foreign-born Black
women giving birth in the United States have superior preterm birth
outcomes compared to their U.S-born Black peers. Many studies have
focused on tobacco use and medical risk factors, but few have focused
solely on preconception health.
Biology of Sex
Differences - Chronic low alcohol intake during pregnancy programs
sex-specific cardiovascular deficits in rats
Exposure to an
adverse environment in early life can have lifelong consequences for
risk of cardiovascular disease. Maternal alcohol (ethanol) intake is
common and associated with a variety of harmful effects to the fetus.
Alcoholism -
Ethanol Exposure Increases miR‐140 in Extracellular Vesicles:
Implications for Fetal Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Maturation
Collectively, the
dysregulated miRNA content of extracellular vesicles following
ethanol exposure may result in aberrant neural progenitor cell growth
and maturation, explaining brain growth deficits associated with
prenatal alcohol exposure.
Developmental
Neuroscience - Functional Connectivity and Metabolic Alterations
in Medial Prefrontal Cortex in a Rat Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and
in vivo Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study
Prenatal ethanol
exposure alters brain structure, functional connectivity, and
behavior in humans and rats. Behavioral changes include deficits in
executive function, which requires cooperative activity between the
frontal cortices and other brain regions.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Aleteia PL
(Poland) - Bezpieczna dawka alkoholu w ciąży nie istnieje.
Świadectwo ojca 6-letniej Asi z zespołem FASD
Nazywane są
„niewidzialnymi dziećmi”. Niewidzialnymi, ponieważ nie
dostrzeżono ich przed urodzeniem, gdy sięgano po lampkę czerwonego
wina, po kilka łyków piwa czy kieliszka wódki – pierwszego „za
mamę”, drugiego „za dzidziusia”.
YLE (Finland) -
Äidin alkoholinkäyttö vammautti Jennyn pysyvästi jo sikiönä
– hänestä kasvoi silti moninkertainen voittaja
Jenny Kärkkäisellä
todettiin FAS eli sikiön alkoholioireyhtymä (siirryt toiseen
palveluun) jo synnytyslaitoksella. Hänellä oli näkövamma,
aivovamma ja nivelvammoja. Hänen kasvonpiirteensä ja pieni kokonsa
olivat tyypillisiä FAS-lapselle.
