@inproceedings{f973687dbe364984ac19614484b20bfe,
title = "Prenatal cocaine exposure: Cardiorespiratory function and resilience",
abstract = "Cardiac vagal tone (VT) was studied as a resilience factor in children prenatally exposed to cocaine and nonexposed controls (n = 550). A cumulative risk index was derived and used to classify children as high versus low risk. VT was measured during mildly stressful observations at 1 and 36 months of age. Children were classified as having consistently high, consistently low, or fluctuating VT. Risk and VT interacted to predict adaptive behaviors. For high-risk children, low VT was related to higher ratings of adaptive behaviors. This finding suggests that regulatory functioning, as indexed by VT, may be a protective factor in prenatal CE.",
keywords = "Children, Cocaine, Cumulative risk, Developmental outcome, Heart rate variability, Prenatal drug exposure, Vagal tone",
author = "Sheinkopf, {Stephen J.} and Lagasse, {Linda L.} and Lester, {Barry M.} and Jing Liu and Ronald Seifer and Bauer, {Charles R.} and Seetha Shankaran and Henrietta Bada and Rosemary Higgins and Abhik Das",
year = "2006",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1196/annals.1376.049",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1573316431",
series = "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences",
publisher = "Blackwell Publishing Inc.",
pages = "354--358",
booktitle = "Resilience in Children",
}