Welcome to the FASD Family Life Podcast. This is the 104th episode of THE show for caregivers by a caregiver. I am Robbie Seale. I am an FASD educator, advocate and mom of five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If my 30 years of parenting has taught me anything it is, that the struggle is real and so is success.
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Here we are my friends, episode 11 of Season 4 which I am calling my World Tour. This season I am speaking with researchers, service providers and individuals with FASD around the world. This week I am in Canada to tell you about a new research project examining Prenatal Alcohol and Neuroimmunity.
This week I am thrilled to share the mic with Brock University Assistant Professor, Charlis Raineki, Ph.d and Tamara Bodnar, PhD. Research Associate from the University of British Columbia. They are here to tell us all about a new Canadian FASD Research project called Prenatal Alcohol and Neuroimmunity. Charlis and Tamara are leading an international research team studying the effects of Prenatal alcohol exposure on immune function and micro-organisms in the digestive track, or ‘gut microbiota'.
LINK TO ADULT STUDY
For information about the other studies referred to in this episode email:
Tamara Bodnar PhD (She, Her)
Research Associate
Faculty of Medicine | Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus |
tamara.bodnar@ubc.ca
Dr. Catherine Lebel will be joining me to talk about her study of Brain Development in Children and Youth with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE) taking place in her Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the University of Calgary on an upcoming episode of the FASD Family Life podcast.
https://www.developmentalneuroimaginglab.ca/study/brain-development-in-children-and-youth-with-fasd/
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