Prenatal alcohol exposure causes fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) among kids.
FASD is more prevalent and less severe than fetal alcohol syndrome but FASD is harder to diagnose because of a lack of objective diagnostic tools.
However, some researchers from Ontario have discovered that eye movement, oroculomotor, tasks could be used to assess FASD in children.
Scholars matched up the oculomotor performance of 10 children with FASD along with 12 children without FASD.
All of the children were asked to look toward or away from a stimulus that appeared in their peripheral visual field. Then their reaction times were measured.
Thus, they concluded that FASD children had much longer reaction times, defined, as the time required in initiating eye movement, both towards and away from the peripheral visual target.
