Fetal alcohol effects: Mechanisms and treatment

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 ISBRA Me eting in Yokohama, Japan. The chair was Edward P. Riley. The presentations were (1) Does alcohol withdrawal contribute to fetal alcohol effects? by Je nnifer D. Thomas and Edward P. Riley; (2) Brain damage and neuroplasticity in an animal model of binge alcohol exposure during the "third trimester eq uivalent," by Charles R. Goodlett, Anna Y. Klintsova, and William T. Greeno ugh; (3) Ganglioside GM1 reduces fetal alcohol effects, by Basalingappa L. Hungund; and (4) Fetal alcohol exposure alters the wiring of serotonin syst em at midgestation, by F. Zhou, Y. Sari, Charles Goodlett, T. Powrozek, and Ting-Kai Li.