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Better Safe Than Sorry: PowerPoint Slides for Transparencies

Learn about the devastating effects of maternal alcohol abuse on fetal development and how it can lead to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). This PowerPoint presentation provides information on the facial features of FAS, brain abnormalities caused by alcohol exposure, and the importance of abstaining from alcohol during pregnancy.

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Better Safe Than Sorry: PowerPoint Slides for Transparencies

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  1. Better Safe Than Sorry: PowerPoint Slides for Transparencies

  2. 1 MATERNAL ALCOHOL ABUSE IS THE LEADING KNOWN CAUSE OF MENTAL RETARDATION IN THE WESTERN WORLD

  3. 2 The facial features ofFetal Alcohol Syndrome are: • Small eyelid openings (palpebral fissures) • Short, upturned nose • Long upper lip (from nose to mouth) with a thin red border and a deficient central groove (philtrum) • Reduced size of the head (microcephaly)

  4. NORMAL 3 FAS

  5. Normal FAS FAS 4 Visualization of the brain of a normal individual (A) and two with FAS (B,C) shows permanent loss of the tissue indicated by the arrows (portions of the corpus callosum). Images courtesy of Dr. S. Mattson

  6. 5 The facial features of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be seen in both a child and a mouse fetus that were exposed to alcohol during development. child with FAS mouse fetuses Narrow forehead Short palpebral fissures Small nose Small midface Long upper lip with deficient philtrum alcohol-exposed normal

  7. 6 CELLS THAT SHOULD FORM MIDLINE STRUCTURES OF THE BRAIN AND FACE ARE KILLED BY ALCOHOL Developing brain and face Heart A close-up view of an alcohol-exposed mouse embryo shows cells killed by alcohol that have taken up a dark blue stain. Mouse embryo (viewed from the front) at a stage corresponding to a 22-23 day old human.

  8. 7 Health advisories urge women who are planning pregnancy or are pregnantnot to drink alcohol.

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