In a groundbreaking study, the UC Riverside team discovered that prenatal exposure to alcohol significantly altered the expression of genes and the development of a network of connections in the neocortex -- the part of the brain responsible for high-level thought and cognition, vision, hearing, touch, balance, motor skills, language, and emotion -- in a mouse model of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. . Prenatal exposure caused wrong areas of the brain to be connected with each other, the researchers found.
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