"Dr. Rebecca Landsberg... looks for signs of fetal alcohol syndrome in less-explored regions of the brain..."

"...'We've got child mental health services in Northland that are so run down that it takes a year to get a fetal alcohol assessment done...'"

"...The bottom line is that nobody is certain of the extent of harm that light drinking can cause a baby. In the absence of evidence, healthcare professionals and medical...

"Epigenetics studies of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder," a recent review published in
Future Medicine by a team of Kids Brain Health Network researchers found that
several epigenetic mechanisms are...

Prenatal alcohol exposure affects more children annually than spina bifida, Down syndrome, childhood cancer and childhood diabetes combined — 2 to 5 percent of all
children. Yet, despite it...

An investigation of intra-individual variability in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)

Mothers who binge drink before they become pregnant may be more likely to have children with high blood sugar and other changes in glucose function that increase their...

"...our experience several years ago when we first discovered our oldest son had Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (under the umbrella of FASDs)..."

Knowledge of heart defects and alcohol exposure before birth is not new. The late Hermann Loser wrote several papers in 1977 based on findings from his work at the...