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dc.contributor.authorChakraborty, Arijit
dc.contributor.authorAnstice, Nicola S.
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorLaGasse, Linda L.
dc.contributor.authorLester, Barry M.
dc.contributor.authorWouldes, Trecia
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16 18:35:39 (GMT)
dc.date.available2017-03-16 18:35:39 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2015-11-19
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16921
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/11506
dc.descriptionChakraborty, A. et al. Prenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool children. Sci. Rep. 5, 16921; doi: 10.1038/srep16921 (2015).en
dc.description.abstractPrenatal exposure to recreational drugs impairs motor and cognitive development; however it is currently unknown whether visual brain areas are affected. To address this question, we investigated the effect of prenatal drug exposure on global motion perception, a behavioural measure of processing within the dorsal extrastriate visual cortex that is thought to be particularly vulnerable to abnormal neurodevelopment. Global motion perception was measured in one hundred and forty-five 4.5-year-old children who had been exposed to different combinations of methamphetamine, alcohol, nicotine and marijuana prior to birth and 25 unexposed children. Self-reported drug use by the mothers was verified by meconium analysis. We found that global motion perception was impaired by prenatal exposure to alcohol and improved significantly by exposure to marijuana. Exposure to both drugs prenatally had no effect. Other visual functions such as habitual visual acuity and stereoacuity were not affected by drug exposure. Prenatal exposure to methamphetamine did not influence visual function. Our results demonstrate that prenatal drug exposure can influence a behavioural measure of visual development, but that the effects are dependent on the specific drugs used during pregnancy.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse grants 2RO1DA014948 and RO1DA021757 and the Auckland Medical Research Foundation.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectHuman behaviouren
dc.subjectSensory processingen
dc.subjectVisual systemen
dc.titlePrenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool childrenen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationChakraborty, A., Anstice, N. S., Jacobs, R. J., LaGasse, L. L., Lester, B. M., Wouldes, T. A., & Thompson, B. (2015). Prenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool children. Scientific Reports, 5, 16921. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep16921en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Scienceen
uws.contributor.affiliation2School of Optometry and Vision Scienceen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen


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