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Maternal smoking while pregnant and conduct disorder

October 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Maternal smoking while pregnant may result in conduct disorder of the offspring, particularly where there’s a genetic predisposition already according to a paper from last May: Baler RD, Volkow ND, Fowler JS, Benveniste H., “Is fetal brain monoamine oxidase inhibition the missing link between maternal smoking and conduct disorders?,” J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2008 May;33(3):187-95.

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