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 ...

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 ...

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders could affect between 1 and 5 percent of children in the United States. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images By the time kids diagnosed with attention deficit ...

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), damage to the frontal and central brain structures, is prevalent in adopted children. Children with FASD struggle with impulsivity, focusing attention, and ...

Celisse Olivia Bibr is a Research Assistant for Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network (CanFASD). Jacqueline Pei is Lead of the Intervention Network Action Team for the Canada Fetal ...

This opinion column was submitted by Tom Donaldson, president and CEO of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS). Later this fall, Nevada could execute Zane Floyd, a man with ...

(WAND) - September marks the start of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders refer to a range of lifelong physical, behavioral, and cognitive disabilities ...

An organization that has been diagnosing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and managing treatment for it recently relocated to a new clinic space with plans for additional diagnosis and treatments. The ...

Why is my child struggling in school? Why do they consistently make the same mistakes? Why aren’t they progressing in maturity the same as their peers? Questions like these are on the minds of several ...

Read more about local philanthropic efforts in the Year-end Giving Guide. Substance exposure happens across all social, economic and ethnic backgrounds. Yet stigma and shame contribute to families not ...

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