A new safe space to help with sensory regulation for people living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and prenatal alcohol ...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), a leading cause of neurodevelopmental disorders, may affect as many as 1 in 20 school-aged children in the United States. Despite its prevalence, the exact ...

Neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE) is a mental health condition that results from exposure to alcohol before birth. It is a type of fetal alcohol spectrum ...

A new study addresses the puzzle of why heavy drinking throughout pregnancy leads to widely varying outcomes for children.

In 1968, researchers at the University of Washington discovered the link between prenatal alcohol exposure and birth defects. A few years later, two of those researchers coined the term to diagnose ...

Four renowned Canadian puppeteers are in London this week shooting a video series aimed at raising awareness about fetal ...

Experts from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, have expanded and updated widely used guidelines established in 2005 for the diagnosis ...

Out of 206 fourth-grade students, 19 met criteria for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, according to a pilot study at the University of Gothenburg. The results indicate that birth defects caused by ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Gov. Henry McMaster has officially made September Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month. Two state agencies want to get the word out about this 100 percent ...

When I was in graduate school at the University of Rochester, I attended a colloquium by Marshall Schecter, a psychiatrist from nearby Syracuse. His topic involved the extraordinarily high rate of ...