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June 9, 2008

Study shows how cocaine impairs fetal brain development

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

Exposure of the developing brain to cocaine can cause neurological and behavioral abnormalities in babies born to mothers who use the drug during pregnancy. In a study research published in this week's PLoS Medicine, Chun-Ting Lee and colleagues at the National Institutes of Heath -- who note that cocaine use occurs in several hundred thousand pregnancies per year in the United States alone -- investigated the mechanism of cocaine's effect on fetal brain development. Read more from this post.



Posted on June 9, 2008 11:33 PM


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