Abstract
The topic of the reviews in this series will be prenatal exposure to drugs such as cocaine and alcohol and their effects on neural ontogeny and associated neurocognitive/neurobehavioral development in offspring. Exposure to drugs prenatally, surely an important concern for practitioners, is part of the broader field of behavioral teratology or the study of perinatal developmental injury and of the factors—including drug and toxin exposure, parental disease or impairment, and birth accidents—that increase the risk of immediate or later physical injury or developmental impairment.
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