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| MARY J O'CONNORSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Stimulants, neuroleptics, and children's friendship training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersFred Frankel
UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 16:777-89. 2006..The present study reports on the interaction between medication status and parent and teacher-reported outcomes for parent-assisted Children's Friendship Training (CFT)...
Translation of an evidence-based social skills intervention for children with prenatal alcohol exposure in a community mental health settingMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:141-52. 2012..However, it remains unclear whether these children can be effectively treated using manualized, evidence-based interventions that have been designed for more general mental health populations...- Prenatal alcohol exposure and depressive features in childrenM J O'Connor
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, and Neuropsychiatric Institute, 90024, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24:1084-92. 2000..Finally, the mother's behavior toward the child, as well as current drinking practices, were postulated to mediate the relationship between prenatal alcohol exposure and child depressive symptoms... 
Brief intervention for alcohol use by pregnant womenMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Am J Public Health 97:252-8. 2007..We examined the efficacy of brief intervention as a technique to help pregnant women achieve abstinence from alcohol. A second aim was to assess newborn outcomes as a function of brief intervention...- Psychiatric conditions associated with prenatal alcohol exposureMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Dev Disabil Res Rev 15:225-34. 2009..It is hoped that with greater awareness of the mental health problems experienced by individuals with FASDs, these individuals can receive appropriate and early treatment resulting in more adaptive and rewarding lives... - A controlled social skills training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:639-48. 2006..Teachers did not report improvement as a function of social skills treatment. The findings suggest that children with FASD benefit from CFT but that these social skills gains may not be observed in the classroom... - Health care provider advice and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption following pregnancy recognitionMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Room 68 265A, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles 90024, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:22-31. 2006..A second purpose was to identify characteristics associated with alcohol consumption postrecognition of pregnancy... - Predictors of alcohol use prior to pregnancy recognition among township women in Cape Town, South AfricaMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, rm 68 265A, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States
Soc Sci Med 72:83-90. 2011..These endeavors should facilitate national goals of healthier pregnancies and the elimination of FASDs in South Africa... - The relationship of prenatal alcohol exposure and the postnatal environment to child depressive symptomsMARY J O'CONNOR
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, 760 Westwood Plaza, Room 68 265 A, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 31:50-64. 2006..This study examined the association between prenatal alcohol exposure and child depressive symptoms, and the mediating effects of maternal and child characteristics... - Alcohol use in pregnant low-income womenMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:773-83. 2003.... - Psychiatric illness in a clinical sample of children with prenatal alcohol exposureMARY J O'CONNOR
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 28:743-54. 2002..There is a need for training in how to recognize the physical and behavioral phenotypes of children with prenatal alcohol exposure so that appropriate treatment can be initiated early... - Prenatal alcohol exposure and attachment behavior in childrenMARY J O'CONNOR
School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:1592-602. 2002..The quality of maternal support in interaction with the child was predicted to mediate prenatal exposure effects... - A longitudinal study of the long-term consequences of drinking during pregnancy: heavy in utero alcohol exposure disrupts the normal processes of brain developmentCatherine Lebel
Department of Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1769, USA
J Neurosci 32:15243-51. 2012..These results are encouraging in that interventions aimed at altering "experience" over time may improve brain trajectories in individuals with heavy PAE and possibly other neurodevelopmental disorders... - Impact of a social skills intervention on the hostile attributions of children with prenatal alcohol exposureVIVIEN KEIL
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 92630, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 34:231-41. 2010..Further, was there a differential impact of the intervention on hostile attributions in the context of peer provocation versus group entry scenarios?.. - Effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on verbal memory revealed with functional magnetic resonance imagingLisa H Lu
Developmental Cognitive Neuroimaging Group, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 30:185-92. 2009..We examined whether neurocognitive systems differed among children with differing prenatal teratogenic exposures when they engaged in a verbal memory task... - Callosal thickness reductions relate to facial dysmorphology in fetal alcohol spectrum disordersYaling Yang
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:798-806. 2012..Furthermore, associations between facial dysmorphology and callosal structure remain undetermined... - Altered frontal-parietal functioning during verbal working memory in children and adolescents with heavy prenatal alcohol exposureElizabeth D O'Hare
Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:3200-8. 2009..These findings may suggest that frontal-parietal processing during verbal WM is less efficient in alcohol-exposed individuals... - Abnormal cortical thickness alterations in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and their relationships with facial dysmorphologyYaling Yang
Laboratory of NeuroImaging LONI, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:1170-9. 2012..Furthermore, the significant associations between thickness and dysmorphic measures suggest that the severity of brain anomalies may be reflected by that of the face... - Executive functioning predicts social skills following prenatal alcohol exposureAmy M Schonfeld
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Child Neuropsychol 12:439-52. 2006..It may be helpful to consider executive functioning in designing social skills interventions for alcohol-exposed children whether or not they have full FAS... - Behavioral regulation as a predictor of response to Children's Friendship Training in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersAmy M Schonfeld
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 23:428-45. 2009..Specifically, the ability to control impulses, solve problems flexibly, and monitor emotional responses significantly predicted improvement in social skills and reduction in problem behaviors following CFT... - Differentiating prenatal exposure to methamphetamine and alcohol versus alcohol and not methamphetamine using tensor-based brain morphometry and discriminant analysisElizabeth R Sowell
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Neurosci 30:3876-85. 2010.... - Intervention for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: treatment approaches and case managementBlair Paley
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Dev Disabil Res Rev 15:258-67. 2009.... - Predictors of stress in parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersBlair Paley
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 27:396-404. 2006..Findings highlight the need to provide support not only to children with FASDs, but to their caregivers as well... - Mapping white matter integrity and neurobehavioral correlates in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersElizabeth R Sowell
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
J Neurosci 28:1313-9. 2008..This suggests that this region of white matter is particularly susceptible to damage from prenatal alcohol exposure and that disruption of splenial fibers in this group is associated with poorer visuomotor integration... - Abnormal brain activation during working memory in children with prenatal exposure to drugs of abuse: the effects of methamphetamine, alcohol, and polydrug exposureFlorence F Roussotte
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7332, USA
Neuroimage 54:3067-75. 2011.... - Regional brain volume reductions relate to facial dysmorphology and neurocognitive function in fetal alcohol spectrum disordersFlorence F Roussotte
Developmental Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 7332, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 33:920-37. 2012.... - Psychiatry trainees' training and experience in fetal alcohol spectrum disordersRoy Eyal
Dept of Psychiatry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Acad Psychiatry 35:238-40. 2011..Individuals affected by FASDs are overrepresented in psychiatric settings. This study reports on the education and experience of psychiatry trainees in approaching FASDs... - Adult attachment and marital interaction as predictors of whole family interactions during the transition to parenthoodBlair Paley
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Fam Psychol 19:420-9. 2005..Findings are discussed in terms of the importance of exploring the transition to parenthood at the broader family level... - Using Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as an integrating curricular themeSusan Baillie
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1722, USA
Med Educ 39:508. 2005 - White matter microstructural alterations in children with prenatal methamphetamine/polydrug exposureJohn B Colby
Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 204:140-8. 2012.... - Philani Plus (+): a Mentor Mother community health worker home visiting program to improve maternal and infants' outcomesMary Jane Rotheram-Borus
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prev Sci 12:372-88. 2011..This paper presents the intervention protocol and baseline sample characteristics for the "Philani Plus (+)" CHW home-visiting intervention trial... - Integrating case topics in medical school curriculum to enhance multiple skill learning: using fetal alcohol spectrum disorders as an exemplary caseBlair Paley
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Acad Psychiatry 33:143-8. 2009.... - Functional magnetic resonance imaging of verbal learning in children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposureElizabeth R Sowell
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
Neuroreport 18:635-9. 2007.... - Behavioral interventions for children and adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disordersBlair Paley
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Alcohol Res Health 34:64-75. 2011..This article will review current empirically tested interventions, methodological challenges, and suggestions for future directions in research on the treatment of FASD...
Research Grants
- PREVENTING ALCOHOL USE IN PREGNANT WOMEN UTILIZING WICMARY O CONNOR; Fiscal Year: 2001..abstract_text> ..