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Drinking of alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in children, the alcohol molecule is very tiny and passes easily across the placenta from mother to fetus.
It may cause behavioral disorder and affects children’s academic performance. The fetus experience delayed brain development in the womb because of alcohol.
Researchers examined children with prenatal alcohol exposure and children that were not exposed to alcohol on the cortical structure of their brains and academic performance.
The alcohol-exposed children performed worse than the other children in all academic areas.
Their brain imaging showed several brain surface area clusters.
The children without prenatal alcohol exposure showed good developmental pattern with good performance in all the academic tests.
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