Alcohol Health and Research World. Volume 18, No. 1, 1994. Special Focus: Alcohol-Related Birth Defects

摘要

This issue provides an in-depth look at alcohol-related birth defects: fromclinical recognition, current research findings, and prevention of these defects, to the care, treatment, and education of affected children and adults. Specifically the following topics are covered: diagnosing and detecting fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), FAS animal studies, alcohol's disruption of cellular events, critical periods during gestation for prenatal alcohol exposure, damaging thresholds of alcohol during pregnancy, paternal alcohol intake and fetal development, teratogenicity of alcohol and other drugs, use of magnetic resonance imaging to elucidate brain abnormalities, economic cost of FAS, new assessment tools to screen risk drinking among pregnant women, FAS prevention and intervention strategies, adults and adolescents with FAS and their treatment needs, prevalence of FAS and its tracking, and knowledge of FAS and risks of heavy drinking during pregnancy among the U.S. population.