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Burd publishes report on prenatal alcohol exposure
No full textGRAND FORKS, N.D.—Currently, about 50 percent of infants in the United States and in North Dakota have some alcohol exposure in early pregnancy. Most of these infants’ mothers then quit drinking. However, about 6 to 10 percent of pregnant women drink throughout their pregnancy.
“Many people thinking about this issue would recognize the link between maternal drug use and developmental problems, which is a major public health issue in the United States and across the world,” said Larry Burd, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and director of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center at the UND SMHS. The center provides prevention, diagnostic, and treatment services for people of all ages who have concerns related to prenatal alcohol exposure.
“However, the much larger problem of prenatal alcohol exposure is a far more serious and much larger public health issue across the world and in North Dakota that is often overlooked,” Burd said. “This level of prenatal exposure is linked to increasing rates of complications during pregnancy and in the newborn.”
The 2015 North Dakota Legislative Assembly created the North Dakota Task Force on Substance Exposed Newborns to study the growing problem and to produce a report for the 65th Legislative Assembly, convening in 2017. Burd was the author of the report submitted to the task force, A Report to the North Dakota Task Force on Substance Exposed Newborns.
“In some cases these children will have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder,” Burd said. “These disorders typically are lifelong disorders and extremely costly. The tragedy here is that these are preventable conditions
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No full textBarry Burd, PhD, is a Computer Science professor at Drew University where he has been named to Drew's "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students" five times. Barry is the author of numerous For Dummies books and writes frequently for several online publications, including JavaBoutique.co
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Master's Recital: 2012-04-03 - Ryan Burd, percussion
No full textRecital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree
Coprophenomena in Tourette syndrome
No full textThe aims of this descriptive study were to examine the prevalence and associations of coprophenomena (involuntary expression of socially unacceptable words or gestures) in individuals with Tourette syndrome. Participant data were obtained from the Tourette Syndrome International Database Consortium. A specialized data collection form was completed for each of a subset of 597 consecutive new patients with Tourette syndrome from 15 sites in seven countries. Coprolalia occurred at some point in the lifetime of 19.3% of males and 14.6% of females, and copropraxia in 5.9% of males and 4.9% of females. Coprolalia was three times as frequent as copropraxia, with a mean onset of each at about 11 years, 5 years after the onset of tics. In 11% of those with coprolalia and 12% of those with copropraxia these coprophenomena were one of the initial symptoms of Tourette syndrome. The onsets of tics, coprophenomena, smelling of non-food objects, and spitting were strongly intercorrelated. Early onset of coprophenomena was not associated with its longer persistence. The most robust associations of coprophenomena were with the number of non-tic repetitive behaviors, spitting, and inappropriate sexual behavior. Although coprophenomena are a frequently feared possibility in the course of Tourette syndrome, their emergence occurs in only about one in five referred patients. Because the course and actual impact of coprophenomena are variable, additional prospective research is needed to provide better counseling and prognostic information
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No full textSpring 1998
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