| Revista: | Genetics and molecular biology |
| Base de datos: | PERIÓDICA |
| Número de sistema: | 000362293 |
| ISSN: | 1415-4757 |
| Autores: | Momino, Wakana1 Felix, Temis Maria2 Abeche, Alberto Mantovani3 Zandona, Denise Isabel2 Scheibler, Gabriela Gayer2 Chambers, Christina4 Jones, Kenneth Lyons4 Flores, Renato Zamora1 Schuler-Faccini, Lavinia1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Genetica, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil 2Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Servico de Genetica Medica, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil 3Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Medicina, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil 4University of California, Division of Dysmorphology and Teratology, San Diego, California. Estados Unidos de América |
| Año: | 2012 |
| Periodo: | Dic |
| Volumen: | 35 |
| Número: | 4 |
| Paginación: | 960-965 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Experimental |
| Resumen en inglés | Prenatal alcohol exposure can have serious and permanent adverse effects. The developing brain is the most vulnerable organ to the insults of prenatal alcohol exposure. A behavioral phenotype of prenatal alcohol exposure including conduct disorders is also described. This study on a sample of Brazilian adolescents convicted for criminal behavior aimed to evaluate possible clinical features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). These were compared to a control group of school adolescents, as well as tested for other environmental risk factors for antisocial behavior. A sample of 262 institutionalized male adolescents due to criminal behavior and 154 male students aged between 13 and 21 years comprised the study population. Maternal use of alcohol was admitted by 48.8% of the mothers of institutionalized adolescents and by 39.9% of the school students. In this sample of adolescents we could not identify individual cases with a clear diagnosis of FAS, but signs suggestive of FASD were more common in the institutionalized adolescents. Social factors like domestic and family violence were frequent in the risk group, this also being associated to maternal drinking during pregnancy. The inference is that in our sample, criminal behavior is more related to complex interactions between environmental and social issues including prenatal alcohol exposure |
| Disciplinas: | Medicina |
| Palabras clave: | Ginecología y obstetricia, Neurología, Toxicología, Embarazo, Criminología, Feto, Trastornos de la conducta, Alcoholismo |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Gynecology and obstetrics, Neurology, Toxicology, Prenatal alcohol exposure, Alcoholism, Criminology, Behavior disorders, Fetus |
| Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
