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Identifying the neurobehavioral phenotype of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in young children.
Journal of population therapeutics and clinical pharmacology = Journal de la therapeutique des populations et de la pharmacologie clinique - 1 Jan 2013
Breiner Petra, Nulman Irena, Koren Gideon
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BACKGROUND: Most children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) do not display the typical facial changes, making the diagnosis much more challenging due to poor specificity of the brain dysfunction exhibited by these children. We have recently described and validated a behavioral phenotype of FASD using items from the Child Behavior Checklist (The Neurobehavioral Screening Test, NST). This tool has high...
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