News tagged with neurotoxicology and teratology

Researchers find prenatal cocaine exposure may compromise neurocognitive development

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that heavier intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) is associated with mild compromise on selective areas of neurocognitive development during middle childhood. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Impairs Infants' Response to Stress

(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants exposed prenatally to cocaine react more emotionally to stress and appear to have fewer stress-reducing coping strategies than infants with no cocaine exposure, researchers at the University at Buffalo's ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0