Gender Differences in Prenatal Substance Exposure

Michael Lewis, PhD, has published more than 3 articles in scientific journals, and he has written or edited more than 35 books, including Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self ( 979) Children’s Emotions and Moods: Developmental Theory and Measurement ( 983) Shame, The Exposed Self ( 992) and Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future ( 997). He edited the Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2nd ed., 2 ), and the Handbook of Emotions (3rd ed., 2 9). He recently won the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award from APA for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society. Lisa Kestler, PhD, is a senior clinician at MedAvante, Inc., a psychiatric research company in Hamilton, New Jersey. At the Institute for the Study of Child Development, Dr. Kestler served as an investigator on the National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study on the Developmental Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Exposure, a prospective study spanning the lives of children born to drug-abusing mothers from infancy through adolescence. Drawing on her training in developmental psychopathology at Emory University, Dr. Kestler has been interested in understanding the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development of children following exposure to intrauterine pathogens as well as postnatal stressors, environmental risk, and parental psychopathology.