How Cocaine Impairs Fetal Brain Development

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 06/12/2008 - 11:45

Exposure of the developing brain to cocaine can cause neurological and behavioral abnormalities in babies born to mothers who use the drug during pregnancy.

Researchers -- who note that cocaine use occurs in several hundred thousand pregnancies per year in the United States alone -- investigated the mechanism of cocaine's effect on fetal brain development.


 

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