The+Stages+of+the+Brain+and+the+Effects

== =**The Stages of the brain and the effects.** = ====Damages the neurons and the brain structures, also other physical, mental and behavioural problems. The Central Nervous System damages the primary feature of any FASD diagnosis. The three areas that damages in the Central Nervous System is Structural, Neurological and Functional Impairments.====

__**Central Nervous System**__
====CNS exposure to alcohol can damage the brain due to the amount, timing and frequency of exposure. It causes primary cognitive and functional disabilities. It includes poor memory, impulsive behaviour, attention deficits. Secondary disabilities are mental health and drug addictions problems. It can increase of norepinephrine and dopamine and may also increase in GABA systems and it will decrease acetylcholine systems.====

__**Neurological**__
====It is caused by prental alcohol exposure and causes damages to the CNS, the Peripheral Nervous System or the Autonomic Nervous System. Neurological problems are known as epilepsy, other seizure disorders or soft signs are expressed. The cause my affect impaired fine motor skills, neurosensory hearing loss, poor gait, clumsiness, poor hand coordinator or sensory integration dysfunction.====

__**Functional**__
====The impairments are deficits, problem, delays, OR abnormalities are due to prental alcohol exposure(rather than hereditary causes or postnatal insults) in observable and measurable domains related to daily functioning, often referred to as developmental disabilities.====

How the alcohol travels to the body..
====First the alcohol enters the body to the stomach where it gets into the bloodstream in the stomach and than travels to the small intestine and than to the heart. The alcohol pumps throughout to the body and than reaches the brain. From the brain to the liver which reaches a rate of 0.5 oz per hour and lastly the alcohol is converted to water, carbon dioxide and energy.====