Study finds sons of cocaine-using fathers have profound memory impairments
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Fathers who use cocaine at the time of conceiving a child may be putting their sons at risk of learning disabilities and memory loss. The findings of the animal study were published online in Molecular Psychiatry by a team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers say the findings reveal that drug abuse by fathers-separate from the well-established effects of cocaine use in mothers- may negatively impact cognitive development in their male offspring.