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Chunk #11 — 2. NEUROIMAGING OF PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO COCAINE — 2.2 Neuroimaging Studies of Prenatally Cocaine-Exposed Children

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Neuroimaging of children following prenatal drug exposure.
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T1-weighted anatomical MRI can be used to qualitatively determine a variety of structural abnormalities. Structural MRI of infants and children exposed to cocaine in utero have revealed cortical infarcts, pachygyria, schizencephaly26-28, and an increased incidence of periventricular hemorrhage, subependymal and periventricular cysts 29-31,