The current proposal is in response to RFA-AA-03-002 and is part of the consortium application, entitled """"""""Cross-Cultural Assessment of FASD."""""""" This RFA calls for, in part, """"""""research to better define and characterize the description of FASD"""""""" including identification of core deficits in this population. The current application meets this goal by proposing research aimed at identifying core neuropsychological and neuroanatomical features in children with fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in two samples of children in two countries, the United States and Russia. Thirty years of research and practice have confirmed that (1) alcohol is a teratogen, (2) the brain is the organ most sensitive to alcohol's effects, and (3) the effects are of a continuous nature. Questions that remain pertain to whether a profile of core deficits and strengths exists, what this profile tells us about the underlying function of the brain, and whether effects can be accounted for by other environmental circumstances like living environment or general intellectual functioning. The current proposal includes both neuropsychological and brain imaging studies and is aimed at characterizing an FASD phenotype. Importantly, two distinct populations will be assessed, children in San Diego, California, and children in Moscow, Russia. The inclusion of these two populations will allow us to answer important questions relating to the role of environment, culture, and general intellectual functioning in the phenotype of FASD. Children in Moscow will primarily be ascertained from boarding schools and orphanages that house children with subnormal intellectual functioning. We have previously determined the rates of FAS in this population are very high. Children in San Diego will be ascertained from ongoing studies of FASD at the SDSU Center for Behavioral Teratology. Thus, we have the unique opportunity to examine the relationship between FASD, IQ, and living environment in large groups of children. In addition to the unique aspects mentioned above, the current application dovetails with other applications in the consortium, allowing large groups of children with FASD to be examined in several international sites using consistent measures. The opportunity for convergence of data from these multiple sites provides tremendous power to test specific hypotheses regarding the phenotype of FASD.
| Seewald, P Michelle; De Jesus, Shannon Y; Graves, Lisa V et al. (2018) Age-related differences on a new test of temporal order memory for everyday events. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 25:319-332 |
| Doyle, Lauren R; Moore, Eileen M; Coles, Claire D et al. (2018) Executive Functioning Correlates With Communication Ability in Youth With Histories of Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 24:1026-1037 |
| Gross, Lauren A; Moore, Eileen M; Wozniak, Jeffrey R et al. (2018) Neural correlates of verbal memory in youth with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. Brain Imaging Behav 12:806-822 |
| Hendrickson, Timothy J; Mueller, Bryon A; Sowell, Elizabeth R et al. (2018) Two-year cortical trajectories are abnormal in children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure. Dev Cogn Neurosci 30:123-133 |
| Glass, Leila; Moore, Eileen M; Akshoomoff, Natacha et al. (2017) Academic Difficulties in Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Presence, Profile, and Neural Correlates. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 41:1024-1034 |
| Infante, M Alejandra; Moore, Eileen M; Bischoff-Grethe, Amanda et al. (2017) Altered functional connectivity during spatial working memory in children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcohol 64:11-21 |
| Wozniak, Jeffrey R; Mueller, Bryon A; Mattson, Sarah N et al. (2017) Functional connectivity abnormalities and associated cognitive deficits in fetal alcohol Spectrum disorders (FASD). Brain Imaging Behav 11:1432-1445 |
| Glass, Leila; Mattson, Sarah N (2017) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Case Study. J Pediatr Neuropsychol 3:114-135 |
| Hendrickson, Timothy J; Mueller, Bryon A; Sowell, Elizabeth R et al. (2017) Cortical gyrification is abnormal in children with prenatal alcohol exposure. Neuroimage Clin 15:391-400 |
| Panczakiewicz, Amy L; Glass, Leila; Coles, Claire D et al. (2016) Neurobehavioral Deficits Consistent Across Age and Sex in Youth with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 40:1971-81 |
Showing the most recent 10 out of 52 publications
