http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/11/16/eyeblink.conditioning.may.help.assessing.children.with.fetal.alcohol.exposure e! Science News
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 – 16:36 in Psychology & Sociology
- Cognitive and behavioral deficits have been found in children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), which is extremely difficult to diagnose
- New findings indicate that those children, when trained using classical eyeblink conditioning, suffer from deficits in both learning and memory
- Using eyeblink conditioning could provide a good model for assessing and diagnosing FAS in children