Eye blinks may help to identify children prenatally exposed to alcohol

Eye blinks may help to identify children prenatally exposed to alcohol Not all children prenatally exposed to alcohol show distinctive facial anomalies usually associated with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). New findings indicate that deficits in eyeblink conditioning (EBC) can identify children with probable FAS. EBC may also serve to identify alcohol-exposed children who lack distinctive FAS features. While children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) have identifiable craniofacial abnormalities, children with alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND) can have significant cognitive impairments without facial anomalies. An important new study has found that a deficit in eyeblink...

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