Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date The Impact of Teratogens on Later Personality Outcomes Teratogens are agents that cause embryo malformations. Environmental factors can cause an abnormality to the embryo during the third to eighth week of pregnancy. Ingestion of drugs, chemicals, alcohol, being vulnerable to infections and tobacco can offer high chances for embryo abnormalities (Bareuther and Burke, 5). Maternal infections like herpes, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, and rubella are usually transfused into the embryo’s bloodstream thus leading to the violent neonatal and prenatal deaths. The significant impacts that end up to cause personality change to the child and later to...
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