Alcohol, Drugs and Medication in Pregnancy

The Long-Term Outcome for the Child
Herausgegeben von Preece, Philip M.; Riley, Edward P.

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Produktbeschreibung

Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 188

This book documents the consequences of the exposure of infants to the influence of intrauterine chemicals. In setting out the evidence for these outcomes, the authors demonstrate that decisions about care and management can and should be made as early as possible. This should allow professionals to provide protective management and prevent the delays that are so often seen in this area of medical and social care.

The international team of contributors sets out to inform the reader of the potential risks to infants exposed to a range of intrauterine chemicals that are potentially neuroactive, including medicinal drugs such as antiepileptics, antidepressants and antipsychotics, as well as drugs of abuse, including alcohol, opiates, and recreational drugs such as cannabis and tobacco. They review the teratogenic action of some of the chemical processes and the relationship of exposure to the stage of pregnancy. Some agents alter anatomic structure; others alter the chemical balance of neurotransmitters and may thus alter the regulation of brain function, with profound effects on the child's behaviour and propensity to behavioural disturbances. The book explores strategies to support these children and those who care for them, including statutory agencies.

Readership
Paediatricians, neonatologists, obstetricians, gynaecologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists, those working in child care and child protection.

Produktdetails

• Clinics in Developmental Medicine
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9781898683889
• ISBN-10: 1898683883
• Artikelnr.: 32441331

Autorenporträt

Philip Preece is a consultant paediatrician with training in neurodisability. He manages a range of children with autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and learning difficulties. He has developed an interest in the outcome of infants exposed to prenatal drugs, both medicinal and recreational, as part of his work assessing children prior to adoption. Ed Riley served as Chair of the National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effect. He currently serves as the Steering Committee Co-Chair of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence. He has been President of the Research Society on Alcohol, the Fetal Alcohol Study Group, and the Behavioral Teratology Society. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, and is on the Editorial Boards of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and the Psychological Record. He has received numerous awards for his scholarship and service, most recently the Research Society on Alcoholism Distinguished Researcher Award.

Inhaltsangabe

AUTHORS' APPOINTMENTS. 1. INTRODUCTION (Philip M Preece). SECTION 1.
NEUROTERATOGENESIS - EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY. 2. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DRUG
AND ALCOHOL USE DURING PREGNANCY (Ron Gray). 3. NORMAL AND ABNORMAL
EMBRYOGENESIS OF THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN (Kathy K Sulik, Shonagh K
O'Leary-Moore, Elizabeth A Godin and Scott E Parnell). SECTION 2. LONG-TERM
EFFECTS OF MAJOR PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS. 4. EPILEPSY IN PREGNANCY AND THE
EFFECT OF PRENATAL ANTIEPILEPTIC MEDICATION (Jill Clayton-Smith and Gus
Baker). 5. NEURODEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO ANTIDEPRESSANT AND
ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATIONS DURING PREGNANCY (Irene Nulman, Sara Citron,
Michelle Todorow and Elizabeth Uleryk). SECTION 3. LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF
DRUGS OF ABUSE. 6. DIAGNOSIS OF FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME: EMPHASIS ON EARLY
DETECTION (Margaret Barrow and Edward P Riley). 7. THE EFFECTS OF PRENATAL
ALCOHOL EXPOSURE ON BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR (Christie L McGee Petrenko and
Edward P Riley). 8. EFFECT OF DRUGS OF ABUSE ON THE FETUS: COCAINE AND
OPIATES INCLUDING HEROIN (Lynn T Singer and Sonia Minnes). 9. CANNABIS USE
DURING PREGNANCY: ITS EFFECTS ON OFFSPRING FROM BIRTH TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD
(Peter A Fried). 10. IN UTERO EXPOSURE TO THE POPULAR 'RECREATIONAL' DRUGS
MDMA (ECSTASY) AND METHAMPHETAMINE (ICE, CRYSTAL): PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
(Derek G Moore, John J D Turner, Julia E Goodwin, Sarah E Fulton, Lynn T
Singer and Andrew C Parrott). 11. THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM
DEVELOPMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF MATERNAL SMOKING DURING PREGNANCY (Kate E
Pickett and Lauren S Wakschlag). SECTION 4. INTERVENTION STRATEGIES TO
REDUCE THE IMPACT OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL IN PREGNANCY. 12. MANAGEMENT OF THE
EFFECTS OF PRENATAL DRUGS IN CHILDREN OF DRUG-ABUSING PARENTS (Faye Macrory
and Michael Murphy). 13. PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR
ALCOHOL-ABUSING MOTHERS IN PREGNANCY (Ann P Streissguth and Therese M
Grant). 14. COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTIONS TO AMELIORATE THE
EFFECTS OF FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS:
PROMOTING POSITIVE OUTCOMES (Wendy O Kalberg and Julie Gelo). 15. FETAL
TERATOGEN SYNDROMES: PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS AND MANAGEMENT (David J Bramble
and Raja A S Mukherjee). 16. RECOMMENDED MANAGEMENT OF COMMON MEDICAL
PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY: ADVICE FROM SPECIALIST AGENCIES (Evelyne
Jacqz-Aigrain and Philip M Preece). INDEX. COLOUR PLATE SECTION.