Gender Differences in Prenatal Substance Exposure

Michael Lewis, PhD, has published more than 300 articles in scientific journals, and he has written or edited more than 35 books, including Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self (1979); Children's Emotions and Moods: Developmental Theory and Measurement (1983); Shame, The Exposed Self (1992); and Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future (1997). He edited the Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2nd ed., 2001), and the Handbook of Emotions (3rd ed., 2009). He recently won the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award from APA for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.   Lisa Kestler, PhD, is a senior clinician at MedAvante, Inc., a psychiatric research company in Hamilton, New Jersey. At the Institute for the Study of Child Development, Dr. Kestler served as an investigator on the National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study on the Developmental Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure, a prospective study spanning the lives of children born to drug-abusing mothers from infancy through adolescence. Drawing on her training in developmental psychopathology at Emory University, Dr. Kestler has been interested in understanding the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development of children following exposure to intrauterine pathogens as well as postnatal stressors, environmental risk, and parental psychopathology.  

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Introduction 
Michael Lewis and Lisa Kestler

I. Cocaine



Gender-Dependent Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure 
Lisa Kestler, David S. Bennett, Dennis P. Carmody, and Michael Lewis
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Age 7 Behavior: The Roles of Gender, Quantity, and Duration of Exposure 
Virginia Delaney-Black, Chandice Covington, Lisa M. Chiodo, John H. Hannigan, Mark K. Greenwald, James Janisse, Grace Patterson, Joel Ager, Ekemini Akan, Linda Lewandowski, Steven J. Ondersma, Ty Partridge and Robert J. Sokol
Sex Differences in the Effects of Cocaine Exposure on Dopaminergic Systems During Brain Development 
Diana Dow-Edwards and Annelyn Torres-Reveron
Gender Influences on the Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Insights From an Animal Model 
Stephane A. Beaudin, Mathew H. Gendle and Barbara J. Strupp

II. Tobacco and Marijuana



Examination of Gender Differences in Effects of Tobacco Exposure 
Claire D. Coles, Julie A. Kable, and Mary Ellen Lynch
Sex-Specific Effects of Prenatal Marijuana Exposure on Neurodevelopment and Behavior 
Jennifer A. Willford, Gale A. Richardson, and Nancy L. Day

III. Alcohol



Sex Differences in Prenatal Alcohol Abuse in Humans 
Ann P. Streissguth
Sex Differences in the Teratogenic Effects of Alcohol: Findings From Animal Models 
Nicha K. H. Otero and Sandra J. Kelly

IV. Environmental Toxins



Gender (Sex) Differences in Response to Prenatal Lead Exposure 
Nancy L. Fiedler
The Sexually Dimorphic Nature of the Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on the Central Nervous System in the Developing Animal 
Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska and Noriyuki Koibuchi
Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain: Hormonal Control and Effects of Endocrine Disruptors 
Erica L. T. van den Akker and Nynke Weisglas-Kuperus

Index

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