Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) is associated with arousal dysregulation, and alterations
of amygdala activity in response to emotional arousal have previously been reported�…

How we feel when we are starving or miss a meal, or two, may be linked to the brain's
complex role in controlling appetite. This understanding may be crucial in efforts to develop�…

Substance exposure in utero has been associated with physical birth defects and increased
risk of regulatory and neuropsychological difficulties. The aims of this study were to describe�…

Background Although many observational studies have found a strong association between
maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSP) and offspring antisocial behaviour, the likelihood�…

It takes only a few years for a human child's sensory cortex to develop its full functionality. By
contrast, it takes over two decades of experience and growth before prefrontal cortex (PFC)�…

Stuttering is a developmental speech disorder originating in early childhood. We aimed to
replicate the association of stuttering and structural morphometry using a large, population�…

There is evidence that maternal experience prior to pregnancy can play an important role in
behavioral, physiological, and genetic programming of offspring. Likewise, exposure to�…

Epigenetic transmission of phenotypic variance has been linked to paternal experiences
prior to conception and during perinatal development. Previous reports indicate that paternal�…

The Perspective by Thompson, Levitt and Stanwood (Prenatal exposure to drugs: effects on
brain development and implications for policy and education. Nature Rev. Neurosci. 10, 303�…

Recent in vivo neuroimaging studies revealed that several brain networks are altered in
prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) affected adolescent brains. However, due to a lack of�…