Fetal Brain Function in Response to Maternal Alcohol Consumption: Early Evidence of Damage

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2168-2175

  Hepper, Peter G ^a   Dornan, James C ^b   Lynch, Catherine ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binge Drinking; Brain Function; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders; Habituation; Neurobehavioral Development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATERNAL ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870896289     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01832.x     Document Type: Article

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