On 2000-04-20 Fran Baron, Valdez, Alaska USA wrote: The aspects that were enlightening have been presented to us through the combined efforts of researchers who truly reflected on the best interests of humanity. These dedicated individuals recognized the properties of the brain that are so negatively affected by the ravages of cocaine, in addition to displaying their sincerity in enabling the American populace to recognize the truth as it pertains to the devastation on the unborn, following them into their early years and, finally, the horrendous outcome as it displays learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, anger and aggression issues. This book is a must for those who are attempting to solve a mystery concerning the deficits that are growing clearer regarding our youth, and what we may be looking forward to pertaining to the future of America. I highly recommend this book as, while it is an expose (and exceedingly well written) on the negative effects on the brain of the developing fetus, it is a composite of well-documented research efforts by scientists who clearly recognize a need toward deeper evaluative efforts concerning the issue of brain damage. This information doesn´t conflict at all with research in other areas of psychological knowledge-gathering exposes.. And summed up by saying An amazing expose on brain-damaged children. Currently Cocaine: Effects on the Developing Brain (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) has an overall rating of 10 over 10.
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Professor John A. Harvey claimed A ´second generation´ of medical and scientific studies has significantly advanced our knowledge of the postnatal consequences of fetal exposure to cocaine. Experiments involving both animals and humans have yielded a striking convergence of findings, indicating that higher levels of cocaine exposure alters programs for brain development in ways that may be associated with lasting changes in brain structure, neuronal function, and behavior. The ´crack baby syndrome,´ in other words, is real, but the effects are more subtle than was previously thought.In Cocaine: Effects on the Developing Brain John A. Harvey and Barry E. Kosofsky bring together a distinguished group of authorities to present a summary of these new findings. While stressing that no single factor independently determines a particular behavioral outcome, the authors present evidence that indicates a clear association of prenatal cocaine exposure with abnormalities ranging from such measurable physical attributes as decreased head size to more subtle behavioral deficits such as modulating attention, impulsivity, and responsiveness.At a time when studies indicate that as many as 221,000 women use an illicit drug at least once during pregnancy, the authors set as a high priority ways of identifying which children and infants are at risk and what kinds of interventions are appropriate. General topics include maternal-fetal effects; postnatal effects; developmental mechanisms; functional deficits; longitudinal studies in humans; and public policy.
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