Emergency Live - Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome: What It Is, What Consequences It Has On The Child
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition in a child that results from alcohol
exposure during the mother’s pregnancy.
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The Good Men
Project - SNL, Disabilities Are Not a Punchline
This is the question that hundreds of thousands of people in America are
asking right now about one of Saturday Night Lives episodes: Winter Formal.
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Medscape - Survey
Shows More Women Drinking During Pregnancy
More pregnant Americans indulged ― and overindulged ―- in alcohol from 2018
to 2020 than in previous years, but researchers found no sharp increase
associated with the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a new report
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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University of
Toronto - Researchers shed light on how fetal alcohol exposure increases
risk of development disorders
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
have uncovered mechanisms that help to explain how the breast cancer 1
susceptibility protein (BRCA1), best known for its role in suppression of
breast cancer, helps to prevent developmental disorders and how alcohol
exposure may increase the risk of these disorders.
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Simple Health - Does
Drinking Impact Your Chances of Getting Pregnant? Here’s What to Know
You’re eating well, exercising regularly, and feeling as Zen as your favorite
yoga teacher — all excellent lifestyle choices that can help increase your
chances of getting pregnant. But is that nightly glass of wine helping or
hurting your fertility?
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National FASD - Help
Fight SNL’s FASD Prejudice
On Saturday 15th January 2022, the American sketch show, Saturday Night
Live (SNL) aired a skit called “Winter Formal” in the US. In the skit, a boy is
mocked for various character traits and marketed as a sexual deterrent for hire
to parents of teenage girls.
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Mum Central - What
I Wish I Knew about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Parenting, in general, is hard work. It is challenging but also rewarding,
especially as a biological mother to a teenage son with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD).
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Creating a Family
- Establishing Daily Routines for a Child with Prenatal Exposure
Parenting a child with prenatal exposure often requires additional
scaffolding to help them learn the daily routines we take for granted.
Establishing consistent daily routines for your child with prenatal exposure
gives repetitive experiential learning that supports him as he acquires the
skills to grow to adulthood.
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HRI Portal
(Canada) - Canada Needs a Coordinated Plan to Address its Leading
Developmental Disability
Canada is a world leader in research on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder,
North America’s leading developmental disability. However, this research is not
being put into place at a national level. The Canada FASD Research Network is
calling on the Government of Canada to develop a national strategy to address
the extraordinary complexities of this disability.
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CanFASD (Canada)
- Let’s Talk About Stigma, Mental Health, and FASD
Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day, an annual campaign to raise awareness of
mental illness and raise funds for mental health initiatives. Today, Bell
Canada will donate money to various mental health programs.
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National FASD - 2022:
The Tipping Point for FASD
Happy New Year! 2021 was a hugely positive year for FASD, gathering yet
more momentum for progress. With that in mind, at National FASD we’re starting
2022 with a lot of excitement.
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VIDEOS and MATERIALS
EUFASD Alliance - Gro Lohaugen Families living with FASD
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FASD Hub Scotland
- Understanding FASD - Adoption Zooms
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FASD Success - #092
Dan Dubovsky: Best Tips for Advocacy, Self Care and Arguing
Today’s guest likely needs no introduction, as he has been a fixture and
looked up to as an expert, sharing his story, teaching, and advocating in the
FASD world for 35 years – but it wasn’t always that way.
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The Adoption and
Fostering Podcast - Wednesday Webcast - Tris Casson-Rennie from FASD Ireland
In this episode we speak about why FASD IRL was started, the work that they do
and the plans for the future.
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B.C.'s
Representative for Children and Youth - FASD with Myles Himmelreich
Raising awareness around FASD as a disorder that can affect anyone from any
culture, society or background is an important step in removing the shame and
stigma faced by children with FASD and their families.
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Medical Assistant
- WALK & TALK: THINGS TO AVOID DURING PREGNANCY
The Walk & Talk products are a way for medical assistants to maximize
the limited time they have with patients during appointments.
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WRAP 2.0 - CREATING
STRENGTH-BASED CLASSROOM AND SCHOOLS
Human relationships are the heart of schooling. The interactions that take
place between students and teachers and among students are more central to
student success than any method of teaching literacy, or science, or math.
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RESEARCH
Clinical Epigenetics - Association of prenatal alcohol exposure with
offspring DNA methylation in mammals: a systematic review of the evidence
Considering heterogeneity in study design and potential for bias, evidence
for an association between PAE and offspring DNA methylation was inconclusive.
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BMJ Open - Early
detection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants at high
risk of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes at 12 months corrected age: LEAP-CP
prospective cohort study protocol
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), including cerebral palsy (CP), autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), are
characterised by impaired development of the early central nervous system,
impacting cognitive and/or physical function.
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Translational
Psychiatry - Activation of the anterior cingulate cortex ameliorates anxiety
in a preclinical model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Altogether, this study demonstrated that reduced excitation in the ACC is a
cause of anxiety in the PAE mice, providing critical insights into the ACC–BLA
neural circuit as a potential target for treating anxiety in FASD patients.
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Promotion Journal
of Australia - Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder resources for educators: A
scoping review
Children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can experience
neurodevelopmental, physical, psychological and behavioural impairments that
can result in a disrupted school experience.
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Neuroimage:
Reports - Impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on intracortical myelination
and deep white matter in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
White matter alterations have been reported in children with prenatal
alcohol exposure (PAE) and in children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD); however, as children with PAE often present with ADHD, covert
PAE may have contributed to previous ADHD findings.
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Neurochemical
Research - Neuroprotective Effects of Crocin Against Ethanol Neurotoxicity
in the Animal Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Several experimental and clinical findings suggest that ethanol consumption
during pregnancy activates an oxidative-inflammatory cascade followed by wide
apoptotic neurodegeneration within several brain areas, including the
hippocampus.
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Drug and Alcohol
Dependence - Prenatal alcohol exposure and offspring subsequent alcohol use:
A systematic review
The findings of this review suggest a positive link between prenatal
alcohol exposure and offspring’s subsequent alcohol use. However, further
mechanistic studies that allow stronger causal inference are warranted to
further elucidate specific causal pathways.
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Preventive
Medicine - Effect of maternal alcohol consumption during the
pre-pregnancy/early-pregnancy period on congenital heart disease: A prospective
cohort study in Central China
Our study supports the need for continued efforts for public health
messages surrounding the potential risks of alcohol consumption prior to or
during pregnancy.
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Addiction Biology
- Prenatal opioid exposure reprograms the behavioural response to future
alcohol reward
As the opioid crisis has continued to grow, so has the number of infants
exposed to opioids during the prenatal period. A growing concern is that
prenatal exposure to opioids may induce persistent neurological changes that
increase the propensity for future addictions.
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Behavioural
Sciences - Rates and implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among
released offenders with mental disorder in Canada
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is prevalent among individuals
involved in the justice system. However, many of the characteristics of
justice-involved individuals with FASD remain unknown.
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Frontiers in
Psychology - Responding to the Unique Complexities of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a multifaceted disability,
characterized not only by brain- and body-based challenges, but also high rates
of environmental adversity, lifelong difficulties with daily living, and
distinct sociocultural considerations.
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IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
ULSS I Dolomiti (Italy) - GINECOLOGIA DI BELLUNO: STUDIO SU ALCOL E
GRAVIDANZA – I PRIMI RISULTATI
La Ginecologia e ostetricia di Belluno ha preso parte come centro satellite
allo Studio osservazionale, prospettico, trasversale FASD, FAS: “Prevenzione,
diagnosi precoce e trattamento mirato
dello spettro dei disturbi feto alcolici (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder,
FASD) e della sindrome feto alcolica (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, FAS)” promosso
dall’ISS Istituto Superiore di Sanità a livello nazionale.
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