On the Spectrum
Brain Games
Teenage Years
Detection
By the Numbers
100
FAS
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
100
This fires off and tells the body how to process information.
What is Dopamine?
100
Neurocognitive Functioning, Self-Regulation, and Adaptive Functioning.
What are three major areas affected in adolescents?
100
This is what alcohol use during pregnancy effects.
What is Growth Impairment, Facial Features, and Weight?
100
This is the amount of alcohol that is safe to drink during pregnancy.
What is None?
200
ARND
What is Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder?
200
The part of the brain that transfers information out of memory to the prefrontal cortex.
What is the Limbic System?
200
The ability to relate cause and consequences.  Also known as executive functioning.
What is Neurocognitive Functioning?
200
This is required in order to confirm and diagnose as being on the spectrum.
What is Prenatal Alcohol Exposure?
200

Brain Growth is mainly affected in this trimester.

What is the Third Trimester?

300
PFAS
What is Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
300
Thinking in abstract, conceptual, higher order terms is an area of difficulty because of damage to this.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
300
The ability to regulate thinking, emotions, and behavior.
What is Self-Regulation?
300
Diagnosis before 6 years of age, the absence of violence, and involvement in special education or social services can do this.
What is help reduce the effects of FASD?
300
This is the percentile of an individual's growth that qualifies them to be placed on the spectrum.
What is the 10th Percentile?
400
This is not considered a disease.  Instead, it is considered a spectrum.
What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder?
400
This is caused by damage to brain development during the pregnancy.
What are smaller heads?
400
The ability to apply knowledge to daily life.
What is Adaptive Functioning?
400
This is the worst kind of drinking during pregnancy.
What is Binge Drinking?
400
This is where FASD ranks in the United States on the list of preventable intellectual disabilities.
What is 1st?
500

This was added by the DSM-5

What is Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure?

500
This causes an inability to learn from experience.
What is being unable to move short-term memory to long-term memory?
500
This is critical for individuals on the spectrum.  They struggle with using it yet if they don't abide by it everything will fall apart.
What is Routine?
500
On August 7, 2012, a resolution was passed that FASD is this during criminal adjudication and sentencing.
What is a Mitigating Factor?
500

2-5% of all babies born in the United States have been affected by this.

What is Prenatal Alcohol Exposure?

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