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A new study addresses the puzzle of why heavy drinking throughout pregnancy leads to widely varying outcomes for children.

Alcohol plays a role in over 200 diseases and injuries, contributing to more than 175,000 deaths in the U.S. annually and 3 million worldwide. Excessive alcohol consumption remains widespread, with 10 ...

Psychiatric problems were documented in the medical records of about 10% of the mothers of polydrug-exposed infants. Diagnoses included mild/borderline mental retardation (8), schizophrenia (7), ...

Researchers say they now know that offspring are inheriting dysfunction in their mitochondria as a result of their parents' substance abuse. This dysfunction causes these individuals to show early ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

Any protective effects it has are offset by the health risks, the authors say. Bad news for the 2.4 billion people around the world who drink alcohol regularly: There is no level of alcohol that is ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) have discovered that parents who struggle with alcohol use disorders can pass along symptoms of early aging to ...