Table of Contents:
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects: a clinical perspective of later developmental consequences
  • Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure
  • Fetal alcohol effects: rat model of alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt
  • Clinical implications of smoking: determining long-term teratogenicity
  • Prenatal exposure to nicotine: what can we learn from animal models?
  • Prenatal cocaine and marijuana exposure: research and clinical implications
  • Cocaine and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings
  • Maternal opioid drug use and child development
  • Effects of opiates on the physiology of the fetal nervous system
  • Maternal exposure to opioids and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings
  • Benzodiazepines and the developing nervous system: laboratory findings and clinical implications
  • Drug effects on sexual differentiation of the brain: role of stress and hormones in drug actions