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  • Maternal perinatal depression and child brain structure at 2-3 years in a South African birth cohort study
    Maternal perinatal depression is associated with risk of adverse child developmental outcomes and differences in offspring brain structure. Evidence from low- and middle-income countries is lacking as is an investigation of antenatal, postnatal, and persistent depression in the same sample. In a South African birth cohort, we investigated the effect of antenatal and postpartum maternal […]
    Jennifer A Pellowski
  • Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
    Alcohol readily crosses the placenta and may disrupt fetal development. Harm from prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is determined by the dose, pattern, timing and duration of exposure, fetal and maternal genetics, maternal nutrition, concurrent substance use, and epigenetic responses. A safe dose of alcohol use during pregnancy has not been established. PAE can cause fetal […]
    Svetlana Popova
  • Validation of the FASD-Tree as a screening tool for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
    CONCLUSION: The FASD-Tree is not a biomarker of PAE and does not provide definitive evidence of prenatal alcohol exposure. Rather it is an accurate and valid screening tool for FASD and can be used by clinicians who suspect that a patient has a history of PAE, even if the exposure is unknown.
    Sarah N Mattson
  • Adverse childhood experiences in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their effects on behavior
    BACKGROUND: Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) have high rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). ACEs are associated with a wide range of health outcomes including difficulty with behavior regulation, an important intervention target. However, the effect of ACEs on different areas of behavior has not been well characterized in children with disabilities. This […]
    Carson Kautz-Turnbull
  • Gene-alcohol interactions in birth defects
    Most human birth defects are thought to result from complex interactions between combinations of genetic and environmental factors. This is true even for conditions that, at face value, may appear simple and straightforward, like fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). FASD describe the full range of structural and neurological disruptions that result from prenatal alcohol exposure. […]
    Joshua L Everson
  • Baseline heart rate in infants with prenatal alcohol exposure: A systematic review and independent analysis
    CONCLUSIONS: A systematic literature review suggested that heart rate is elevated in infants with PAE, but these findings are limited by the number of studies and how few studies included control infants. The analysis of individual patient data indicates that infants with PAE have normal baseline heart rates. This knowledge may help clinicians detect changes […]
    Peyton McDonnell
  • Wireless Heart Sensor for Capturing Cardiac Orienting Response for Prediction of Neurodevelopmental Delay in Infants
    Early identification of infants at risk of neurodevelopmental delay is an essential public health aim. Such a diagnosis allows early interventions for infants that maximally take advantage of the neural plasticity in the developing brain. Using standardized physiological developmental tests, such as the assessment of neurophysiological response to environmental events using cardiac orienting responses (CORs), […]
    Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera
  • Association of Maternal and Child Anemia With Brain Structure in Early Life in South Africa
    CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this cohort study, anemia in pregnancy was associated with altered child brain structural development. Given the high prevalence of antenatal maternal anemia worldwide, these findings suggest that optimizing interventions during pregnancy may improve child brain outcomes.
    Catherine J Wedderburn
  • High-throughput detection of craniofacial defects in fluorescent zebrafish
    Losses and malformations of cranial neural crest cell (cNCC) derivatives are a hallmark of several common brain and face malformations. Nevertheless, the etiology of these cNCC defects remains unknown for many cases, suggesting a complex basis involving interactions between genetic and/or environmental factors. However, the sheer number of possible factors (thousands of genes and hundreds […]
    Joshua L Everson
  • Alcohol-related dysmorphic features as predictors of neurodevelopmental delay in infants and preschool-aged children: Results from a birth cohort in Ukraine
    CONCLUSION: Predictive analysis based on dysmorphic features and measures of growth performed modestly in this sample. As these features are more reliably measured than neurodevelopment at an earlier age, the inclusion of dysmorphic features and measures of growth in predictive models should be further explored and validated in different settings and populations.
    Gretchen Bandoli
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