A Review of Substance Abuse Monitoring in a Social Services Context: A Primer for Child Protection Workers
April 15, 2010

The Impact of an ADHD Co-Morbidity on the Diagnosis of FASD
April 6, 2010

Profile of the First 1,400 Patients Receiving Diagnostic Evaluations for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder at the Washington State Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diagnostic & Prevention Network
March 26, 2010

Normal Distribution of Palpebral Fissure Lengths in Canadian School Age Children
February 10, 2010

Managing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Public School System: A Needs Assessment Pilot
February 10, 2010

Alcohol Content in Declared Non - or Low Alcoholic Beverages: Implications to Pregnancy
January 4, 2010

Motherisk Drug Testing Newsletter for Children's Aid Societies
December 2009

Estimating the Neurocognitive Effects of an Early Intervention Program for Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
November 19, 2009

Physical and Neurodevelopmental Evaluation of Children Adopted from Eastern Europe
October 29, 2009

The Relation between Theory of Mind and Executive Functions in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
July 26, 2009

Ethylglucuronide and Ethylsulfate in Meconium to Assess Gestational Ethanol Exposure: Preliminary Results in Two Mediterranean Cohorts
June 24, 2009

Were our Forebears Aware of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and its Effects? A Review of the History of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
May 13, 2009

Screening and Recording of Alcohol Use Among Women of Child-Bearing Age and Pregnant Women
April 16, 2009

Concordance of Three Methods for Palpebral Fissure Length Measurement in the Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
April 16, 2009

Neuropsychological and Behavioral Outcomes from a Comprehensive Magnetic Resonance Study of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
March 27, 2009

Child Guardianship in a Canadian Home Visitation Program for Women who use Substances in the Perinatal Period
January 30, 2009

The Burden of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol: Revised Measurement of Cost
January 23, 2009

Costs of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Alberta, Canada
January 16, 2009

Gender and attention deficits in children diagnosed with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
October 24, 2008

Development of Canadian Screening Tools for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
September 5, 2008

2008 FACE Poster Competition Abstracts September 9, 2008 Montreal, Quebec
August 19, 2008

Knowledge and Attitudes of Criminal Justice Professionals in Relation to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
August 4, 2008

Building Clinical Capacity for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Diagnoses in Western and Northern Canada
June 10, 2008

Needs Assessment and Current Practice of Alcohol Risk Assessment of Pregnant Women and Women of Childbearing Age by Primary Health Care Professionals
June 1, 2008

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: New Zealand Birth Mothers' Experiences
June 1, 2008

What human service professionals know and want to know about fetal alcohol syndrome
February 26, 2008

Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder pilot media intervention in New Jersey
February 26, 2008

Perspectives of mothers with substance use problems on father involvement
February 1, 2008

Fetal alcohol syndrome related knowledge assessment and comparison in New Jersey health professional groups
January 9, 2008

Memory patterns of acquisition and retention of verbal and nonverbal information in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
January 9, 2008

POSTER COMPETITION ABSTRACTS
September 7, 2007

Hearing in Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
November 1, 2007

Rural FASD Diagnostic Services Model: Lakeland Centre for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
November 1, 2007

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Fetal Alcohol Research (FAR) - The official journal of the FACE Research Network

Advancing FASD prevention and care through research

On November 1, 2007, the Journal of FAS International - JFAS Int - was amalgamated with the Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, a peer-review, on-line journal @ www.cjcp.ca. The Section in the amalgamated Journal dedicated to FASD is called Fetal Alcohol Research (FAR). This amalgamation will ensure that original research published in CJCP/FAR will be cited in PubMed - Medline, hence increasing the exposure of new findings in fetal alchol research within the scientific community.

Past issues of the Journal of FAS International will be maintained in the JFAS archives. You may view them any time. We will also continue to post the FACE Research Roundtable Webcasts, Scientific News andConferences and Events notices @ http://www.motherisk.org/FAR. So keep that page bookmarked.

FASD is the most prevalent cause of developmental delay and brain insult. Affecting an estimated 0.3% to 1% of all offspring, victims of FASD face debilitating, and often devastating effects that last a lifetime. Unlike other developmental brain impairment,the etiology of FASD is known. Yet progress in prevention, diagnosis and management has been painfully slow. Many factors need to be addressed, including the role of poverty, homelessness, psychiatric morbidity, social disparity, other drugs of abuse, poor nutrition and lack of medical care during pregnancy. It is our hope that this new journal and on-line resource will advance the search for new knowledge and solutions.

The amalgamated CJCP/FAR will continue to be web-based and freely available to clinicians, researchers, teachers, individuals affected by FASD (including parents, partners, siblings), program providers, community leaders and the public at large. We hope you find the content and format of Fetal Alcohol Research (FAR) useful in your practice, research and programs. We welcome your ideas about how to improve FAR and invite you to submit papers and letters.

Cordially,
Gideon Koren, MD, FABMT, FRCPC
Director, The Motherisk Program
Professor of Paediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Medicine and Medical Genetics, The University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, The Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
The Ivey Chair in Molecular Toxicology, University of Western Ontario, Canada