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Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol: A Meta-Analytic Review.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Behavioral interventions for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A review of systematic reviews.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive and Behavioural Attention in Children with Low-Moderate and Heavy Doses of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive and behavioral development: Findings from a hierarchical meta-analysis of data from six prospective longitudinal U.S. cohorts.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of prevention interventions to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in indigenous communities.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of prenatal marijuana exposure on neuropsychological outcomes in children aged 1-11 years: A systematic review.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-Analyses of Externalizing Disorders: Genetics or Prenatal Alcohol Exposure?Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Pooled it
- Altered neuronal network connectivity in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and its association with inhibitory function.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- GenomicSEM Modelling of Diverse Executive Function GWAS Improves Gene Discovery.Behavior genetics · 2025Article
- Differentiating Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder from other neurodevelopmental disorders: neurocognitive and socio-emotional evidence.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Impact of Developmental Alcohol Exposure on Sleep Physiology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Altered markers of brain metabolism and excitability are associated with executive functioning in young children exposed to alcohol in utero.Metabolic brain disease · 2024Article
- Association of Overweight and Obesity with Impaired Executive Functioning in Mexican Adolescents: The Importance of Inhibitory Control.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Interventions for improving executive functions in children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD): A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Review
- Rat Model of Late Gestational Alcohol Exposure Produces Similar Life-Long Changes in Thalamic Nucleus Reuniens Following Moderate- Versus High-Dose Insult.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2022Article
- Vision, future, cycle and effect: A community life course approach to prevent prenatal alcohol exposure in central Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022Article
- Impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on neurodevelopmental outcomes: a systematic review.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2022Review
- Nurturing families: One year pilot outcomes for a modified Parent Child Assistance Program in Australia.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Measurement of neurodevelopmental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure in Ukrainian preschool children.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2021Article
- Executive functioning-specific behavioral impairments in a rat model of human third trimester binge drinking implicate prefrontal-thalamo-hippocampal circuitry in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.Behavioural brain research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Prenatal alcohol exposure is associated with a constellation of adverse physical, neurocognitive and behavior outcomes, which comprise a continuum of disorders labeled Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Extant research has consistently identified executive functions (EF) as a central impairment associated with FASD. Despite this, heterogeneity exists regarding the strength of the association between FASD and different EF, and this association has not yet been quantitatively synthesized. The current meta-analysis reviews 46 studies that compare children and adolescents with FASD to participants without FASD, on a variety of EF measures. In accordance with Miyake et al. Cognitive Psychology, 41, 49-100 (2000) three-factor model of EF, findings for the primary EF domains of working memory, inhibition, and set shifting are reviewed. Results indicate that children and adolescents with FASD demonstrate significant deficits across these EF, although the magnitude of effects diverged between EF, with working memory and inhibition yielding medium effects and set shifting yielding large effects. These results were moderated by sample characteristics, type of FASD diagnosis, and EF methodology. This quantitative synthesis offers novel future research directions.
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