Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Social information processing skills in children with histories of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure.

30 Jul 2009 Based on caregiver report, children with prenatal alcohol exposure have difficulty with social functioning, but little is known about their social cognition. The current study assessed the social information processing patterns of school-age ... Read more...

The relation between theory of mind and executive functions in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

24 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are faced with a range of physical, cognitive, behavioral, and/or learning deficits, as well as poor executive functioning and social skills. Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to ... Read more...

Interventions for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs): overview of findings for five innovative research projects.

24 Mar 2009 It is well established that prenatal exposure to alcohol causes damage to the developing fetus, resulting in a spectrum of disorders known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Although our understanding of the deficits and disturbances ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Social information processing skills in children with histories of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. 30 Jul 2009
• The relation between theory of mind and executive functions in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 24 Jul 2009
• Interventions for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs): overview of findings for five innovative research projects. 24 Mar 2009
• Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous schoolchildren. 28 Feb 2009
• Maternal smoking in pregnancy and externalizing behavior in 18-month-old children: results from a population-based prospective study. 27 Feb 2009
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and alterations in brain and behaviour. 13 Jan 2009
• Both parental psychopathology and prenatal maternal alcohol dependency can predict the behavioral phenotype in children. 30 Dec 2008
• Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder-associated depression: evidence for reductions in the levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in a mouse model. 29 Sep 2008
• Neuropsychological study of FASD in a sample of American Indian children: processing simple versus complex information. 28 Sep 2008
• Executive functioning in children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: profiles and age-related differences. 27 Sep 2008
• Behavioral regulation as a predictor of response to Children's Friendship Training in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 21 Sep 2008
• Understanding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs): toward identification of a behavioral phenotype. 19 Sep 2008
• Prenatal alcohol exposure as a risk factor for dysfunctional behaviors: the role of the pediatrician. 20 Aug 2008
• Neuropsychological characteristics of Italian children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 16 Aug 2008
• Rare childhood diseases: how should we respond? 4 Aug 2008
• Children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure demonstrate deficits on multiple measures of concept formation. 26 Jun 2008
• [How difficult is it to detect fetal alcohol syndrome in school-age children?] 30 May 2008
• Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: problem behaviors and sensory processing. 29 Apr 2008
• Mapping white matter integrity and neurobehavioral correlates in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 4 Feb 2008
• Memory patterns of acquisition and retention of verbal and nonverbal information in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 7 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Fetal Alcohol Syndrome'

Definition: A condition occurring in FETUS or NEWBORN due to in utero ETHANOL exposure when mother consumed alcohol during PREGNANCY. It is characterized by a cluster of irreversible BIRTH DEFECTS including abnormalities in physical, mental, and behavior development (such as FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; MENTAL RETARDATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS) with varied degree of severity in an individual.

Descriptor UI: D005310

Alternative terms: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Fetal Alcohol Syndromes;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C13.703.277.080; C16.300.080; C21.739.100.087.397;

History Note: 79; was in Cat C & F 1979-80