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| Claire ColesSummaryAffiliation: Emory University Country: USA Publications
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Maternal substance use: epidemiology, treatment outcome, and developmental effects: an annotated bibliography, 1995C D Coles
Human and Behavior Genetics Laboratory, Georgia Mental Health Institute, Atlanta 30306, USA
Subst Use Misuse 32:149-68. 1997..This bibliography provides a list of recent and classic articles in these areas as well as information about the research in these areas...- Attentional response at eight weeks in prenatally drug-exposed and preterm infantsC D Coles
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Neurotoxicol Teratol 21:527-37. 1999..Hierarchical regression indicated cocaine (R2 = 0.034, p < 0.05) but not other drug use and instability in parenting (R2 = 0.137, p < 0.001) accounted for the observed differences... 
Functional neuroimaging in the examination of effects of prenatal alcohol exposureClaire D Coles
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30306, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 21:119-32. 2011..Nonetheless, these functional neuroimaging studies suggest that prenatal alcohol exposure, or a diagnosis of FAS, may lead to restrictions in neural efficiency or a global decrement in processing resources...
Memory and brain volume in adults prenatally exposed to alcoholClaire D Coles
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
Brain Cogn 75:67-77. 2011..These results indicate that the association between the physical effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and deficits in memory are mediated by volumetric reduction in specific brain regions...- Verbal and nonverbal memory in adults prenatally exposed to alcoholClaire D Coles
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:897-906. 2010..e., verbal vs. visual/spatial domains... - Socioeconomic differences and the impact of being small for gestational age on neurodevelopment among preschool-aged childrenCarolyn Drews-Botsch
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Rev Environ Health 26:221-9. 2011..Studies of small for gestational age (SGA) birth and subsequent childhood cognitive outcomes are inconsistent. Few studies have assessed whether effects varied by socioeconomic status (SES)... - Games that "work": using computer games to teach alcohol-affected children about fire and street safetyClaire D Coles
The Marcus Institute, A Division of Kennedy Krieger at Emory University and The Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Res Dev Disabil 28:518-30. 2007..Results suggested that this is a highly effective method for teaching safety skills to high-risk children who have learning difficulties... - Physiological responses to social and cognitive challenges in 8-year olds with a history of prenatal cocaine exposureJulie A Kable
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1256 Briarcliff Rd, Room 323, West, Atlanta, Georgia 30306 2636, USA
Dev Psychobiol 50:251-65. 2008..Altered arousal responses associated with prenatal cocaine exposure persisted into middle childhood but were different from those found in behaviorally disturbed children... - Examining delinquency in adolescents differentially prenatally exposed to alcohol: the role of proximal and distal risk factorsMary Ellen Lynch
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:678-86. 2003.... - Maternal alcohol use during pregnancy causes systemic oxidation of the glutathione redox systemTheresa W Gauthier
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:123-30. 2010..We hypothesized that maternal alcohol use would increase systemic oxidant stress in the pregnant female, evidenced by an oxidized systemic GSH redox potential... - The impact of maternal smoking on fast auditory brainstem responsesJulie A Kable
Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30324, USA
Neurotoxicol Teratol 31:216-24. 2009..These results suggest that the relationship between maternal smoking may lead to disruption in the sensory encoding of auditory stimuli... - Math performance and behavior problems in children affected by prenatal alcohol exposure: intervention and follow-upClaire D Coles
Marcus Institute, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 30:7-15. 2009..This study evaluated the persistence of effects of an intervention on the math performance and behavior of 54 children, 3- to 10-years, diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome or FASD... - The impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on neurophysiological encoding of environmental events at six monthsJulie A Kable
Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 28:489-96. 2004.... - Socio-cognitive habilitation using the math interactive learning experience program for alcohol-affected childrenJulie A Kable
Marcus Institute, an Affiliate of Kennedy Krieger Institute at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1425-34. 2007.... - Case study: using a virtual reality computer game to teach fire safety skills to children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndromeLynne S Padgett
Marcus Institute, A Division of Kennedy Krieger of Emory University, 1920 Briarcliff Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:65-70. 2006..To assess the effectiveness of a computer-based virtual reality (VR) game in teaching five children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) fire safety skills and to generalize these skills to a real world simulation... - Prenatal alcohol exposure and ability, academic achievement, and school functioning in adolescence: a longitudinal follow-upKaren K Howell
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:116-26. 2006..Prenatal alcohol exposure is associated with learning, behavioral, and academic problems even in children without the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)... - Prenatal cocaine exposure alters emotional arousal regulation and its effects on working memoryZhihao Li
Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Neurotoxicol Teratol 31:342-8. 2009.... - Maternal alcohol abuse and neonatal infectionTheresa W Gauthier
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:1035-43. 2005..Since chronic alcohol use suppresses the adult immune system, we tested the hypothesis that maternal alcohol ingestion increases the risk of infection in term newborns... - Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on brain activation during an arithmetic task: an fMRI studyPriya Santhanam
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 33:1901-8. 2009..The aim of the present study was to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the effect of PAE on neuronal activation during a subtraction task... - Voxelwise and skeleton-based region of interest analysis of fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in young adultsLongchuan Li
Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:3265-74. 2009..256, p = 0.044). In addition, the patterns in axial and radial diffusivity changes suggest that demyelination may be associated with the degraded white matter integrity observed in the dysmorphic group... - Evaluation of corpus callosum anisotropy in young adults with fetal alcohol syndrome according to diffusion tensor imagingXiangyang Ma
Biomedical Imaging Technology Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:1214-22. 2005..If future studies support these findings, diffusion anisotropy, represented by fractional anisotropy, has the potential to be used as a clinical marker in the diagnosis of FAS... - Concurrent alcohol use or heavier use of alcohol and cigarette smoking among women of childbearing age with accessible health careJames Tsai
Prevention Research Branch, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Prev Sci 11:197-206. 2010..The findings of this study highlight the importance of screening and behavioral counseling interventions for excessive drinking and cigarette smoking by health care providers in both primary care and emergency department settings... - Interventions for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs): overview of findings for five innovative research projectsJacquelyn Bertrand
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30329, United States
Res Dev Disabil 30:986-1006. 2009..Results of these five studies dispel that concern by demonstrating several interventions that have been shown to improve the lives of individuals with FASDs and their families... - Increased mortality among women who drank alcohol during pregnancyJohn Peder Berg
Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Alcohol 42:603-10. 2008..Drinking at any level during pregnancy should be regarded as a risk factor for the mother as well as for offspring. Health care professionals working with such women should provide counseling and support for abstinence... - Auditory and visual sustained attention in adolescents prenatally exposed to alcoholClaire D Coles
Department of Psychiatry
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:263-71. 2002..In this study of sustained attention, processing in the visual modality was more affected than that in the auditory modality. Deficits in visual processing seemed to result from insensitivity to target stimuli... - Neurobehavioral consequences of prenatal alcohol exposure: an international perspectiveEdward P Riley
San Diego, State University, San Diego, California 92120, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:362-73. 2003..Mattson, E. P. Riley, A. Matveeva, and G. Marintcheva; and (6) Long-term follow-up of Finnish children exposed to alcohol in utero in various durations, by Marit I. Korkman and I. Autti-Rämö. The discussant was Ting-Kai Li... - Prenatal cocaine and other substance exposure: effects on infant autonomic regulation at 7 months of agePamela Schuetze
Department of Psychology, State University of New York College at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, USA
Dev Psychobiol 49:276-89. 2007..Fetal growth and maternal caregiving behavior did not mediate or moderate this association. These results provide additional support for an association between prenatal cocaine exposure and dysregulation during infancy... - Prenatal cocaine exposure: a comparison of 2-year-old children in parental and nonparental careJosephine V Brown
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Altanta 30303, USA
Child Dev 75:1282-95. 2004..Further analyses suggested that this protective effect of nonparental care was in part due to nonkin rather than kin care...
Research Grants
- Prenatal Tobacco Use: Auditory Processing and LanguageClaire Coles; Fiscal Year: 2007..All analyses will control for other contributions to outcomes (i.e., Alcohol exposure, Caregiving potential, Quality of Caregiving, including language environment, Child Health and Hearing). ..
- MATERNAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE--OUTCOME AT SCHOOL AGEClaire Coles; Fiscal Year: 2002..The results of these studies will provide insight into the impact of factors associated with MSA on school-age outcomes. ..
- MATERNAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE--DEVELOPMNTL OUTCOME IN INFANCYClaire Coles; Fiscal Year: 1993..Path analysis will be done to describe the extent to which maternal substance abuse impacts on infant development over the first 24 months of life...
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Adult NeurocognitionClaire Coles; Fiscal Year: 2007..We anticipate that these techniques will provide insight into the teratogenic effects of alcohol exposure on development as well as the relationship between white matter integrity and neuropsychological functioning in this disorder. ..