in deficits in social behaviors and increases in high risk behaviors such as drug use (Connor et al., 2000, Olson et al., 1997). Consistent with this relationship, individuals with FASD are impaired in social behavior to a greater extent than can be explained by IQ deficits alone (Connor et al., 2000, Thomas et al., 1998) and are at high risk for drug and alcohol dependence (Alati et al., 2006, Baer et al., 1998, 2003, Yates et al., 1998). The constellation of deficits in executive function, social behavior, and drug addiction suggests that there may be changes in brain regions important to these types of behavioral changes, namely the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the nucleus accumbens (NAC) (Gass et al., 2007, Lawrence et al., 2008, Mihalick et al., 2001).
