Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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s disorder which can result in mild learning disabilities

to major mental, physical and developmental disorders (Lewis,113)". Children

with an alcohol related disorder may or may not have physical defects and

because of this most go undetected at birth. "Although after birth there are ways

of detecting fetal alcohol syndrome and that is by neuroimaging techiques such

as computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)(Noll, 196)".

For example, recent studies suggest that well documented cases of FAS may

show a variety of abnormalities, such as callosal dysgenesis, agenesis or

cerebellar hypoplasia. Further, MRI and CT can also provide a precise

quantitative measure of brain volume, permitting more accurate and clinically

meaningful assessment of microcephaly. "Nonetheless, this technology is young,

and consequently, the role of such ancillary measure is also controversial, and

their utility in making a diagnosis of FAS is yet to be established (Stratton, 69)".

The pre-natal world of t...