study of its kind, children and adolescents exposed to ethanol in utero were administered the San Diego Odor Identification Test, where the child is presented with common household odors such as chocolate and peanut butter and must name the odor, revealing significant impairments in the identification of these odors (261). These findings in human beings are compelling, raising questions about the ability for human beings with FASD to discriminate between similar and different odors. Others have reported that fetal ethanol exposure increases infant reactivity to the smell of ethanol after birth, indicating some prenatal sensory memory that persists after birth (262, 263).
