The Nation - News from Jan. 19, 1987

Rat experiments suggest that cocaine use during pregnancy can produce infants with long-term abnormalities in the brain systems that control sensation, movement and emotions, a researcher said at a symposium sponsored by the Greater New York chapter of the March of Dimes. This occurs despite the frequent absence of physical defects in the babies, said Diana Dow-Edwards of the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn.