Articles liés à The Knotted Cord: Transgenerational Alcohol Related...

The Knotted Cord: Transgenerational Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder - Couverture souple

O'Malley, Kieran D

 
9781634851978: The Knotted Cord: Transgenerational Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1634851978 ISBN 13 : 9781634851978
Editeur : Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2016

Synopsis

The title of the book harks back to Michael Dorris's seminal work The Broken Cord (1987) which eloquently brought this hidden' population into the light. However, the metaphorical umbilical cord is not truly broken, and the unique neurodevelopmental disorder resulting from prenatal alcohol exposure will continue to be one ghost in our delivery rooms, nurseries, and lives which haunts us. Why a different knot'? Because management becomes knotted with the origins of the infant's prenatal life, whether they are birthed, fostered, adopted, either same culture or inter-country adopted. The knot' (as in Not it'), also speaks to medical professionals and society's continued ambivalence to acknowledging another inconvenient truth. Maternal drinking in pregnancy causes Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND) whether dysmorphic, called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), or non dysmorphic, ARND itself. These are both transgenerational developmental psychiatric disorders. The prevalence of ARND continues to be under-recognised as it is mainly presented as a faceless 'hidden disability' (masquerading as ADHD, Mood Disorder or ASD), rather than a facial dysmorphic disorder. The subtle denial and minimisation of transgenerational alcohol abuse is aided only by diagnosing the far less frequent dysmorphic ARND (FAS). This creates a false security across social classes concerning alcohol's true transgenerational epigenetic effect. Thus, the real financial costs and health care burden of trans-generational ARND , with an international prevalence of 1 in 100 live births, is avoided.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

Kieran D. O'Malley (Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Charlemont Clinic, Dublin, Ireland)

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1634851978
ISBN 13 
9781634851978
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible