Persistent Deficits in Heart Rate Response Habituation Following Neonatal Binge Ethanol Exposure

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research1 Published Online: 10 Jun 2009

These data suggest that there are relatively long-term consequences of neonatal ethanol exposure on nonassociative memory. This impairment in habituation may be relevant to the distractibility and poor focused attention that is pervasive among humans diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

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