ArticleNeurotoxicology and teratology
Effects of prenatal tobacco, alcohol and marijuana exposure on processing speed, visual-motor coordination, and interhemispheric transfer.
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- Totality of the Evidence Suggests Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Does Not Lead to Cognitive Impairments: A Systematic and Critical Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review investigating prenatal cannabis and tobacco co-exposure: Impacts on neonatal, behavioral, cognitive and physiological outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Review
- Under the Influence: Cognitive Effects of Medical Marijuana on Developing Minds.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2025Article
- Prenatal substance exposure and infant neurodevelopment: a review of magnetic resonance imaging studies.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Early Maternal Prenatal Cannabis Use and Child Developmental Delays.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Associations between Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Cannabis with Cognition and Behavior at Age 5 Years: The Healthy Start Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Prenatal cannabis use and its impact on offspring neuro-behavioural outcomes: A systematic review.Paediatrics & child health · 2023Article
- Influence of prenatal cannabinoid exposure on early development and beyond.Advances in drug and alcohol research · 2023Review
- Prenatal cannabinoid exposure and early language development.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- In-utero cannabis exposure and long-term psychiatric and neurodevelopmental outcomes: The limitations of existing literature and recommendations for future research.Birth defects research · 2022Review
- The effects of prenatal nicotine and THC E-cigarette exposure on motor development in rats.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Cannabis legalization and cannabis-involved pregnancy hospitalizations in Colorado.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Long-term effects of prenatal cannabis exposure: Pathways to adolescent and adult outcomes.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2022Review
- Reduced fractional anisotropy in projection, association, and commissural fiber networks in neonates with prenatal methamphetamine exposure.Developmental neurobiology · 2020Article
- Marijuana and Opioid Use during Pregnancy: Using Zebrafish to Gain Understanding of Congenital Anomalies Caused by Drug Exposure during Development.Biomedicines · 2020Review
- Developmentally Transient CB1Rs on Cerebellar Afferents Suppress Afferent Input, Downstream Synaptic Excitation, and Signaling to Migrating Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Feasibility and Acceptability of e-Screening and Brief Intervention and Tailored Text Messaging for Marijuana Use in Pregnancy.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Article
- Maternal smoking and neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants <29 weeks gestation: a multicenter cohort study.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2019Article
- Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations.American journal of public health · 2017Review
- Functional Connectivity of the Infant Human Brain: Plastic and Modifiable.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2017Review
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Abstract
Deficits in motor control are often reported in children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). Less is known about the effects of prenatal tobacco exposure (PTE) and prenatal marijuana exposure (PME) on motor coordination, and previous studies have not considered whether PTE, PAE, and PME interact to affect motor control. This study investigated the effects of PTE, PAE, and PME as well as current drug use on speed of processing, visual-motor coordination, and interhemispheric transfer in 16-year-old adolescents. Data were collected as part of the Maternal Health Practices and Child Development Project. Adolescents (age 16, n=320) participating in a longitudinal study of the effects of prenatal substance exposure on developmental outcomes were evaluated in this study. The computerized Bimanual Coordination Test (BCT) was used to assess each domain of function. Other important variables, such as demographics, home environment, and psychological characteristics of the mother and adolescent were also considered in the analyses. There were significant and independent effects of PTE, PAE, and PME on processing speed and interhemispheric transfer of information. PTE and PME were associated with deficits in visual-motor coordination. There were no interactions between PAE, PTE, and PME. Current tobacco use predicted deficits in speed of processing. Current alcohol and marijuana use by the offspring were not associated with any measures of performance on the BCT.
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