Maternal substance abuse and the developing nervous system / edited by Ian S. Zagon, Theodore A. Slotkin.

Contents Introduction / Duane Alexander -- Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects: a clinical perspective of later developmental consequences / Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth -- Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure / Nancy L. Day -- Fetal alcohol effects: rat model of alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt / Charles R. Goodlett and James R. West -- Clinical implications of smoking: determining long-term teratogenicity / Peter A. Fried -- Prenatal exposure to nicotine: what can we learn from animal models? / Theodore A. Slotkin -- Prenatal cocaine andmarijuana exposure: research and clinical implications / Barry Zuckerman and Deborah A. Frank -- Cocaine and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings / Linda Patia Spear and Charles J. Heyser -- Maternal opioid drug use and child development / Sydney L. Hans -- Effects of opiates on the physiology of the fetal nervous system / Hazel H. Szeto and Peter Y. Cheng -- Maternal exposure to opioids and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings / Ian S. Zagon and Patricia J. McLaughlin.
Contents (cont) Benzodiazepines and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings and clinical implications / Carol K. Kellogg -- Drug effects on sexual differentiation of the brain: role of stress and hormones in drug actions / Annabell C. Segarra and Bruce S. McEwen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92007145
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