Increased rates of mental disorders in people with FASD are commonly reported. Mental health providers should routinely consider FASD in the diagnosis and management of mental illness and developmental disorders. The quality of the research and precision of comorbidity estimates would be improved by additional studies including people with FASD and non-FASD comparison subjects. Until these studies are available, this review provides the best available estimates of comorbid mental disorders in people with FASD.
These pilot observations are suggestive of up-regulation of central vagal effects with heightened cholinergic excitatory responses and inadequate relaxation responses at the foregut, and may form the basis for persistent feeding difficulties in opioid-exposed infants. Abnormality with both sensory and motor aspects of vagal reflexes may be contributory.
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