ArticleNeurotoxicology and teratology
The effects of prenatal cocaine exposure and gender on inhibitory control and attention.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Cocaine Use on Cognitive Inhibition.Neuropsychology review · 2026Pooled it
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- Effects of prenatal marijuana exposure on neuropsychological outcomes in children aged 1-11 years: A systematic review.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Cocaine perturbs neurodevelopment and increases neuroinflammation in a prenatal cerebral organoid model.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- 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
- Self-Recognition and Emotional Knowledge.The European journal of developmental psychology · 2022Article
- Commentary: Totality of the Evidence Suggests Prenatal Cannabis Exposure Does Not Lead to Cognitive Impairments: A Systematic and Critical Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Oxytocin Receptor Exon III Methylation in the Umbilical Cord Blood of Newborns With Prenatal Exposure to Crack Cocaine.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
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- Gender Differences in the Outcome of Offspring Prenatally Exposed to Drugs of Abuse.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Review
- Effects of Fetal Substance Exposure on Offspring Substance Use.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2019Review
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- Reversal Learning Deficits Associated with Increased Frontal Cortical Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Tyrosine Kinase B Signaling in a Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Mouse Model.Developmental neuroscience · 2016Article
- Prenatal substance exposure and child self-regulation: Pathways to risk and protection.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2015Article
- Effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on early sexual behavior: Gender difference in externalizing behavior as a mediator.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- Developmental consequences of fetal exposure to drugs: what we know and what we still must learn.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2015Review
- Prenatal cocaine exposure and age of sexual initiation: direct and indirect effects.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
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Abstract
Children exposed prenatally to cocaine show deficits in emotion regulation and inhibitory control. While controlling for the measures of medical complication in the perinatal period, environmental risk, and prenatal polydrug exposure (alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana), we examined the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure and gender on attention and inhibitory control in 203 children at ages 6, 9, and 11. Cocaine exposure affected the performance of males, but not females. Heavily exposed males showed deficits in the attention and the inhibition tasks. In addition, a significantly greater proportion of heavily exposed males (21%) than unexposed males (7%) or heavily exposed females (7%) failed to complete the task (p<0.01). Even without those poorest performing subjects, the overall accuracy for heavily exposed males (81%) was significantly reduced (p<0.05) compared to lightly exposed males (87%) and unexposed males (89%). The findings highlight the importance of considering gender specificity in cocaine exposure effects. Processes by which cocaine effects may be specific to males are discussed.
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