Neuroscience News - Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Linked to
Gender-Specific Adversities
A new study identified sex-specific differences in neurodevelopment and
health-related disorders in children who were exposed to alcohol while in the
womb.
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Death Penalty Information Center - New Podcast:
Protecting Especially Vulnerable Defendants from the Death Penalty — A
Discussion with Karen Steele
In the latest episode of “Discussions with DPIC,” Robert Dunham, former
Executive Director of DPIC, interviews Karen Steele, a researcher and defense
attorney in Oregon, regarding the special characteristics of late adolescent
defendants facing the death penalty.
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Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research - Renewed call
to improve approaches for developing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnostic
criteria: Commentary on “Comparison of three systems for the diagnosis of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders in a community sample”
There have been significant advances in assessment processes and diagnostic
criteria since the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure were first described in
the medical literature (Lemoine, Harrouseau, & Borteyru, 1968; Ulleland,
Wennberg, Igo, & Smith, 1970) and the terminology of fetal alcohol syndrome
was first applied (Jones & Smith, 1973).
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NOFASD Australia - THINKING ABOUT BRAIN IN ANALOGIES FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF FASD CHANGEMAKERS -Part 2 Of 3
Most people with FASD are good at language output – at talking – but very
poor at interpretation – making sense of what is being said – independent of
cognitive ability (IQ). And what people
expect from you is almost always based on how well you speak. Think about it…….
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CanFASD (Canada) - Announcing the 2023 Dr. Sterling
Clarren Research Award Recipient
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2023 Dr. Sterling Clarren
FASD Research Award is Danielle Johnston for her research on visual-motor
integration, visual perception and motor coordination assessments in children
with FASD.
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VIDEOS and MATERIALS
FASD Hub Scotland and FASD Hub UK - Wednesday Webinar - the Value of a FASD
Diagnosis
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Manitoba FASD Coalition - How You Can Support Healthy
Sexual Development and Behaviours in Children and Youth with FASD
This panel discussion focuses on the basics of supporting healthy sexual
development and behaviors in children and youth with FASD.
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The Honestly Adoption Company - How To Advocate For Your
Child With FASD
The FASD journey can be very defeating and very frustrating. Mostly
because, we are constantly dismissed by providers, or made to feel like we're a
bit crazy when we try to get answers. How do you break through this?
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NPs, Midwives, & Nurses Partnering to Prevent FASDs - FASD
Champions Connect - Lynn Cole, DNP
Dr. Cole is a pediatric Nurse Practitioner who specializes in the care of
children with complex developmental and behavioral challenges.
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Spotlight on FASD - Podcast Season 5 Episode 5 -
Encounters with the Criminal Justice System: A Research Study
We end our criminal justice mini series chatting with David Junior Gilbert,
Doctoral Researcher at the Univeristy of Salford.
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Patricia Kasper, Your FASD Coach - Free Friday Tidbits
with Your FASD Coach
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are but one type of neurodivergence. Those
who have prenatal exposure to alcohol have physiological changes to the
structure and function of their brain.
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FASD Education & Advocacy - FAQs about FASD
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UBC Psychology - Dr. Tamara Bodnar (Mar 9, 2023) - UBC
Psychology Colloquia
Prenatal alcohol exposure has been well-documented to result in deficits in
cognitive function, learning and memory, attention, and behavioural regulation,
as well as mood disturbances.
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National FASD - Raja & Neil's FASD Book Club -
Session 12, The Role of Formal Psychometric Assessment in FASD
In session 12 of Raja & Neil’s FASD Book Club, Alexandra Carlisle and
Alexandra Livesey discussed their chapter, ‘The Role of Formal Psychometric
Assessment in FASD’.
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FASD Hub Australia Podcast - We share the latest
evidence-based information about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
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FASD Awareness - David Junior Gilbert - FASD in the
Criminal Justice System (Webinar #14)
Individuals with FASD are nineteen times more likely to be involved with
the criminal justice system (CJS) when compared to those without FASD.
Interrogative suggestibility, a tendency to accept suggestions (during police
interviews) is theorised to be a weakness in this population.
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Again for the first time - A Dialogue with Dr. Liam
Curran regarding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Dr. Liam Curran has spent many years witing about and studying how
undiagnosed F.A.S.D. has had devestating effects on families and society as a
whole. This week on the Again For the First Time Podcast.
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RESEARCH
University of New Mexico - Enrichment-Mediated Neurogenesis is Impaired in
the ventral Hippocampus in a Mouse Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
(FASD) and Potential Therapeutic Intervention
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a leading cause of preventable
intellectual disability and neural developmental disorders. Depression and
anxiety are the most common mental illness in people with FASD.
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University of New Mexico - Microvascular Structure and
Blood Brain Barrier Function are Compromised in Developing Cortices Following
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
FASD presents as a wide range of neurocognitive deficits that may be caused
by abnormal vascular development in the brain and expression of factors that
regulate vessel formation.
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Archives of Hellenic Medicine - Alcohol and cardiac abnormalities
in embryos
In the present paper, alcohol-related congenital heart abnormalities are
examined. Congenital heart defects are morphological and functional
abnormalities of the heart, which are present at birth and can disrupt the
normal blood flow of the heart or great arteries.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health - Development of an Australian FASD Indigenous Framework: Aboriginal
Healing-Informed and Strengths-Based Ways of Knowing, Being and Doing
Aboriginal culture intuitively embodies and interconnects the threads of
life that are known to be intrinsic to human wellbeing: connection. Therefore,
Aboriginal wisdom and practices are inherently strengths-based and
healing-informed.
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Review of Disability Studies - An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Increasing Access to Care for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have a prevalence of roughly 1 in
20, making it one of the most prevalent disorders in the United States (May et
al., 2018).
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University of Victoria - Choline: A Potential
Neuroprotective Agent for Microglia Recovery from Prenatal Ethanol Exposure
We investigated the effects of postnatal ethanol exposure (at a time period
equivalent to 3rd trimester in humans) on microglia in the hippocampus of
adolescent rats.
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Advances in Dual Diagnosis - Capturing invisibility:
child welfare social worker's interventions and assessment planning in
presentations of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder(s)
The direct implications of FASD and how it impacts CWS are well documented.
However, few studies focus on the critical interface of FASD and the role of
CWSW responsible for planning their safe care. This paper offers a novel
pragmatic and functional multistep protocol to aid CWSW in this complex area of
practice.
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Annals of Medicine - Multifaceted case management during
pregnancy is associated with better child outcomes and less fetal alcohol
syndrome
At age five, proportionally fewer children of MCM participants qualified
for a diagnosis of FAS, and proportionally more had physical outcomes
indicating better prenatal brain development. Neurobehavioral indicators were
not significantly different from controls by age five.
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Nutrients - Untargeted and Targeted Blood Lipidomic
Signature Profile of Gestational Alcohol Exposure
Alcohol consumption has a close relationship with blood lipid levels in a
nonpregnant state, with a myriad of effects on the liver; however, little is
known about the interaction of alcohol and lipids in the context of fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
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Research in Developmental Disabilities - Prognostic
factors for long-term outcome in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Even though our results need to be interpreted with caution due to
methodological limitations such as the use of a convenience sample and limited
statistical power, they imply that severely affected children with FASD
experience a less stable environment.
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Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research - Sex-related
differences among individuals assessed for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in
Canada
Individuals with PAE/FASD experience notable sex-related differences in
clinical presentation and experiences across the lifespan.
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Children - Concerns and Strengths: Caregiver Perceptions
of Their Infant/Toddler with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
These findings reinforce the value of caregivers’ perspectives and offer a
reminder to practitioners that infants/toddlers with PAE and their caregivers
have many strengths that can be harnessed, in addition to a range of challenges
that must be addressed.
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Nutrients - The Association of the
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis with Appetite Regulation in Children with
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
Hormonal dysregulation in FASDs can contribute to reduced growth and
development, as well as many other disturbed processes, including
neurological/neurodevelopmental dysfunctions.
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Research in Developmental Disabilities - Relationship-based
intervention for children who were prenatally alcohol exposed in South Africa
This early intervention study investigated the effectiveness of a
relationship-based, developmental enhancement process for children who were
prenatally exposed to alcohol in the South African context.
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Monash University - Attention and white matter micro- and
macro-structure in children exposed to common patterns of alcohol consumption
during pregnancy
Attention deficits are common among children with heavy prenatal alcohol
exposure, but little is known about the developmental consequences of lower and
more common alcohol consumption patterns during pregnancy.
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Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy - Financial
difficulties among youth prenatally exposed to substances: a longitudinal
register-based cohort study
Receipt of long-term FSA among youth with PSE likely reflects maternal
substance abuse linked with maternal financial situation and care instability
in childhood.
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Journal of the International Association of Providers of
AIDS Care (JIAPAC) - Factors Associated With Changes in Alcohol Use During
Pregnancy and the Postpartum Transition Among People With HIV in South Africa
and Uganda
Identifying factors associated with alcohol use changes during pregnancy is
important for developing interventions for people with HIV (PWH).
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Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research - Fetal
alcohol exposure impairs learning and memory functions and elevates levels of
various biochemical markers of Alzheimer's disease in the brain of
twelve-month-old rats
These data suggest that fetal alcohol exposure increases the expression of
some of the biochemical and behavioral phenotypes of Alzheimer's disease during
aging.
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IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Łódzkiego (Poland) - Pomagamy dzieciom z
zespołem FASD
Nie ma bezpiecznej dawki alkoholu w ciąży. Nawet jedna lampka wina do
kolacji zaszkodzi dziecku w brzuchu matki. Niestety liczby nie wyglądają
optymistycznie.
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NOZ (Germany) - Kampf
gegen FASD: Bundesverdienstkreuz für Gisela Michalowski
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Knov
(Netherlands) - ‘Je kunt niet echt moeder zijn, je bent meer hulpverlener
Gabrielle: “Ik zou verloskundigen willen meegeven om bespreekbaar te maken
wat alcohol (zowel bij de man als de vrouw) vlak voor en tijdens de
zwangerschap kan doen, want als je te maken krijgt met FASD dan heeft dat een
enorme impact op je leven. Niet alleen op dat van de ouders en/of
verzorgers, maar ook op dat van het kind zelf.
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