The Herald
(Scotland) - Newborn babies tested for alcohol after shock
research shows 42 per cent of mums drink while pregnant
NEWBORN babies in
Scotland are being tested for alcohol after researchers found signs
that pregnant mothers from all walks of life are drinking regularly.
Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel - Worry about Zika, but worry more about fetal alcohol
disorder
For the last two
months, it's been all Zika, all the time. Some 358 cases of the
mosquito-borne disease have been reported in the United States —
all travel-related, but ratcheting up anxiety for anyone who is
pregnant.
TheSequitur.com -
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome – What You Need To Know
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) is the term used to describe the range of
disorders that arise in children after exposure to alcohol during
pregnancy. This article is going to provide you with an overview of
the diagnosis, signs, symptoms and management of FASD.
Whitehorse Star
(Canada) - Yukon FASD rates higher than thought
Rates of Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the Yukon criminal justice system
are significantly higher than previously thought.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Yukon FASD study prompts calls for 'system-wide change'
A study in Yukon
is showing the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
within the criminal justice system. The condition affects an
estimated 1 per cent of children in Canada, but new research shows
the percentage of people within Yukon's justice system with FASD is
17.5 per cent, or about one in six.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Dartmouth parents plea for more support for disabled son
Leo Jones has
needed extra support since childhood. Adopted at age three, he has
been diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome. He does work part time,
but his parents still have to supervise him, as they do any time he
leaves the house.
The Guardian
(Australia) - Northern Territory urged to act on foetal alcohol
spectrum disorder
The Northern
Territory government is yet to implement a single recommendation from
a report into the effects of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, 14
months after it was handed down.
SKNVibes.com
(Saint Kitts) - “I Am Too Young to Drink”
On Wednesday, 23rd
March, 2016, the UWI Open Campus in St. Kitts hosted a presentation
and discussion entitled ‘Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder’ (FASD),
in which past Resident tutor and Head of the UWI Open Campus, Mrs.
Olivia Edgecombe-Howell, led a conversation on the abovementioned
topic, engaging persons in a riveting discussion on the causes and
permanent impacts of this disorder to both individual and society.
Kenora Daily Miner
and News (Canada) - KPDSB Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder program
applauded at Toronto symposium
Keewatin Public
School’s Transitions North program and its teachers received high
praise for their work last month during a conference in Toronto.
The Sun (UK) - ‘I
was left bitten, battered and bruised... by my four-year-old’:
Woman adopts child suffering with heart-breaking symptoms of Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome Disorder
A BRAVE mum is
speaking out to raise awareness of the devastating effects alcohol
can have on a developing foetus.
News24 (South
Africa) - Alcohol research centre receives vehicle
A SPONSORED
vehicle was delivered by De Aar Solar Power to the Foundation for
Alcohol-Related Research (Farr) on the official re-opening of the
Farr/Joan Wertheim Centre in De Aar on Thursday (21/04).
UPCOMING
The Swedish Family
Care Competence Centre - 2nd International Conference "Every
Child has the Right to..." (Call for Abstract – May 15;
Conference date 28-31 May 2017)
The 2nd
International Young Carers Conference will challenge the
international community to focus on the issues of children as next of
kin and young carers. It aims to support society to take
responsibility and actualize the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child, and, in particular, when a child has a family member who is
seriously ill or has an addiction or mental illness or experiences
bereavement in their family.
Broken Lives: Conference on
Addiction & Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (May 19, 2016)
Registration has
opened for the first-ever “Broken Lives: Addiction and Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder” conference to be held May 19-20 in
Whiteclay, Neb. Jointly sponsored by the Black Hills nonprofit Roots
to Wings and Nebraskan nonprofit Special Needs Advocates and Parents
(SNAAP), the conference is aimed at providing education and training
to teachers, social workers, law enforcement, medical professionals,
legislators and community policy makers.
FASD/ONE -
Comordidity of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic
Review and Meta-analysis (May 17, 2016)
Dr. Svetlana
(Lana) Popova, MD, PhDs, MPH is a Senior Scientist in Social and
Epidemiological Research (SER) at CAMH. She is also an Associate
Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Epidemiology
Division and the Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the
University of Toronto. She has an appointment as a Graduate Faculty
Associate Member with the Institute of Medical Science, University of
Toronto.
Fetales Alkoholsyndrom und Fetale
Alkoholspektrumsstörungen (2016-05-11)
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
ERLC
Administration - MODULE 1 Supporting Students with Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders FASD
A key to
supporting students with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) is
having a good understanding of FASD and how individuals with FASD are
impacted.
MODULE 2 Supporting Students with
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
MODULE 3 Supporting Students with
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders FASD
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder:
clinical guideline for diagnosis across lifespan
In this podcast,
two of the authors of the guideline explain what to look for in
clinical practice. Dr. Valerie Temple is a clinical psychologist at
Surrey Place Centre in Toronto, and Dr. Christine Loock is a
developmental pediatrician at Children's and Women's Health Centre of
British Columbia, with an academic appointment at UBC.
AGLCdotCA - FASD
- Kelly and Patricia Morgan
In this two-minute
video, Kelly Morgan, an adult living with FASD and her adoptive
mother, Patricia Morgan, discuss some of the challenges of living
with FASD and how, with understanding and support, a person with FASD
can overcome challenges and find success.
abcqanda - Q&A
FactCheck - Foetal alcohol syndrome
Sharman Stone says
"The thing about alcohol that concerns me most is the violence
done to the unborn child when a mother drinks while she's pregnant,
and then endangers the baby's brain integrity with foetal alcohol
spectrum syndrome or foetal alcohol disorder. The baby's born
permanently brain damaged, and Australia has some of the highest
rates per capita of FAS or FASD in the world. It's one of our
best-kept secrets."
FASD-ONE - Sean
Monteith: FASD: Taking Action in Ontario Symposium 2016
OTHER NEWSLETTERS
EFAN - FRONTLINE
NEWSLETTER – MAY 2016
What do mothers
really want on mothers day? Flowers? probably, but what they really
want is me time; sleep in, read a book, go out, and most of all a day
free of all the hassles and bustles of running a home. We have put
together a list of things you could do for mommy this mothers day.
Of course, you are free to investigate and find out what yours want.
NOFASD Australia -
The Loop – e-news (April)In this April issue of The
Loop, we introduce Emeritus Professor John Boulton to the "From
My Desk" section. Professor Boulton writes of the invisibility
of FASD.
RESEARCH
The FASEB Journal
- Choline Supplementation Improves Behavioral Aspects of Mice
Exposed to Ethanol in Utero
Maternal alcohol
consumption during pregnancy leads to a range of long lasting
developmental defects and deficits in the child that include effects
on brain and behavior, collectively known as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD).
The FASEB Journal
- Metabolic Phenotype and Increased Adiposity in a Mouse Model of
Chronic Gestational Alcohol Exposure
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the largest preventable cause of
neurodevelopmental disability and recent studies suggest that
prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) also increases obesity risk at
adolescence.
The American
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Do attitudes and knowledge
predict at-risk drinking among Russian women?
Drinking patterns
among Russian women indicate substantial risk for alcohol-exposed
pregnancies. Data about women’s knowledge and attitudes related to
alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the extent to which women’s
knowledge and attitudes affect their alcohol use remain limited.
Hormones and
Behavior - Thyroxine administration prevents matrilineal
intergenerational consequences of in utero ethanol exposure in rats
The
neurodevelopmental fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is
characterized by cognitive and behavioral deficits in the offspring.
Conferring the deficits to the next generation would increase overall
FASD disease burden and prevention of this transmission could be
highly significant.
Behavioural Brain
Research - Developmental and behavioral consequences of early life
maternal separation stress in a mouse model of fetal alcohol spectrum
disorder
Prenatal alcohol
exposure (PAE) can result in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD),
characterized by developmental disability. As children with FASD are
often raised in suboptimal conditions, we have investigated the
combination of PAE via maternal preference consumption of 10% ethanol
in water with early life stress (ELS) via daily 3 h maternal
separation and isolation.
Reproductive
Toxicology - Ethanol exposure represses osteogenesis in the
developing chick embryo
It is known that
excess alcohol consumption during pregnancy can increase the risk of
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). However, the effect of
ethanol exposure on bone morphogenesis in fetus is largely unknown.
San Jose State
University - Expanding a Drosophila Model of Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder: A Forward Genetic Screen for Developmental Ethanol
Exposure Phenotypes
Previous research
focusing on the role of the insulin signaling pathway has established
Drosophila melanogaster as a model for FASD. Here I describe a
forward genetic screen undertaken with the goal of expanding this
Drosophila FASD model.
Alcohol and
Alcoholism - Modeling Symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder in a Rat Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Several studies
indicate the similarity between the symptoms of fetal alcohol
syndrome and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This
study hypothesized that prenatal exposure to ethanol (EtOH) can be
used as an animal model of ADHD in Wistar rats.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Mynewsdesk
(Sweden) - Barn med medfödda skador av alkohol behöver särskilt
stöd
Uppskattningsvis
föds varje år cirka 1 000 barn med alkoholskador (FASD) i Sverige,
100–200 av dem har fetalt alkoholsyndrom, FAS, det vill säga grava
skador. Ett mörkertal visar att det finns många barn med
alkoholrelaterade fosterskador som inte upptäcks och därmed
riskerar att inte få rätt stöd och insats.
