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Is fetal brain monoamine oxidase inhibition the missing link between maternal smoking and conduct disorders?
Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN - 1 May 2008
Baler Ruben D, Volkow Nora D, Fowler Joanna S, Benveniste Helene
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness in the world today. Prenatal cigarette smoke exposure (PCSE) is a particularly insidious form because so many of its associated health effects befall the unborn child and produce behavioural outcomes that manifest themselves only years later. Among these are the associations between PCSE and conduct disorders, which have been mostly ascribed to the deleterious...
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