A Longitudinal Study of the Long-Term Consequences of Drinking during Pregnancy: Heavy<i>In Utero</i>Alcohol Exposure Disrupts the Normal Processes of Brain Development

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Exposure to alcohol in utero can cause birth defects, including face and brain abnormalities, and is the most common preventable cause of intellectual disabilities. Here we use structural magnetic resonance imaging to measure cortical volume change longitudinally in a cohort of human children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and a group of unexposed control subjects, demonstrating that the normal...

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