Full Description
This volume provides current state-of-the-art methods for screening, diagnosis, management, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (and FASD). Chapters detail animal models, mechanism of ethanol teratogenesis, genetic mechanisms, clinical perspectives, physical traits in children with FASD, managing behavior, FASD and the correction system, nutritional influences aiding FASD prevention, prenatal alcohol screening, the use of dental signatures in FASD diagnosis, the experiences of FASD research and clinical practices in Australia, Canada, UK, USA, adult FASD diagnosis, FASD and children in care, FASD and the healing journey.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Advances in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder aims to be a useful practical guide to researchers and clinicians to help further their study in this field.
Contents
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Recognition, Reaction, and Resurgence.- FASD. A Clinician's perspective. Key Questions and Answers with Commentary.- Teleost Fish as Model Animals to Understand Alcohol Teratology.- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder as a Retinoic Acid Deficiency Syndrome.- Genetics of FASD: Confounding Rare Craniofacial and Neurodevelopmental Disorders May Identify Ethanol-Sensitizing Genetic Variants of FASD.- Comparative Analysis of the Physical Traits of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in South Africa and the United States and the Likelihood of FASD Births.- Approach to Managing Behavior in FASD.- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Corrections System.- Development and Utility of a National Database of Individuals Exposed Prenatally to Alcohol.- Nutrition Intervention as a Preventative Approach to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.- Alcohol use Screening in Pregnant and Childbearing Aged Women: Practices and Implications.- Dental Signatures as a Potential Biomarker of FASD.- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia - from Fiction to Fact and to the Future.- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Challenges in Adulthood.- FASD in the UK: Challenges, changes and opportunities.- FASD and Children in Care: Lessons learned from Research and Practice in Manitoba.- Reflections from Manitoba: Supporting the Healing Journey.
