Main 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:

1. The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Recognition, Reaction, and Resurgence

Kenneth Lyons Jones

2. FASD. A Clinician's perspective. Key Questions and Answers with Commentary

Albert E. Chudley

3. Teleost Fish as Model Animals to Understand Alcohol Teratology

Praneeth Silva, Parnia Azimian Zavareh and Devi Atukorallaya

4. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder as a Retinoic Acid Deficiency Syndrome Abraham Fainsod, Tali Abbou, Liat Bendelac-Kapon, Tamir Edri, and Graciela Pillemer

5. Genetics of FASD: Confounding Rare Craniofacial and Neurodevelopmental Disorders May Identify Ethanol-Sensitizing Genetic Variants of FASD

Leo McKay, Berardino Petrelli, Albert E Chudley, and Geoffrey G Hicks

6. 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

Philip A. May, Julie M. Hasken, Anna-Susan Marais, B.Cur., Marlene M. de Vries, Wendy O. Kalberg, Melanie A. Manning, and H. Eugene Hoyme

7. Approach to Managing Behavior in FASD

Ana C. Hanlon-Dearman and Stefanie Narvey

8. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the Corrections System

Larry Burd

9. Development and Utility of a National Database of Individuals Exposed Prenatally to Alcohol

Jocelynn L. Cook, Kathy L. Unsworth, and Audrey McFarlane

10. Nutrition Intervention as a Preventative Approach to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Olena Kloss, Lidia Sharova, and Miyoung Suh

11. Alcohol use Screening in Pregnant and Childbearing Aged Women: Practices and

Implications

Danijela Dozet, Larry Burd, and Svetlana Popova

12. Dental Signatures as a Potential Biomarker of FASD

Berardino Petrelli, Noriko B. Boorberg, and Geoffrey G. Hicks

13. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia - from Fiction to Fact and to the Future

Elizabeth J Elliott and Carol Bower

14. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Challenges in Adulthood

Valerie K. Temple, Ann Lindsay, Shirley McMillan,Josee Casati, Bruce Edwards, and Paula Green

15. FASD in the UK: Challenges, changes and opportunities

Raja Mukherjee

16. FASD and Children in Care: Lessons learned from Research and Practice in Manitoba

Don Fuchs

17. Reflections from Manitoba: Supporting the Healing Journey

Holly Gammon