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Increased. >> reporter: ucla researchers studied more than 64,000 mothers and their children in a danish/british national cohort from 1996 to 2002. more than half reported using acetaminophen while pregnant. and the results appeared to show a higher risk of children having adhd behaviors at age 7. >> it affects the thyroid function in the fetus and we know that the thyroid function is the levels of hormones are important in the development of the brain. >> reporter: abc's dr. richard besser said the study did not look into why the women were taking the drug in the first place. >> if they were ...

Long term effects affect your central nervous system, and alcohol affects the sleep cycle to people take alcohol to go to sleep but it affects the sleep cycle later so you're most likely to wake up or have disturbed sleep. >> sometime during the drinking you need a red bull. that's a problem. the blue red bull. it's more delicious. >> well, alcohol affects people in different ways, and some people get very high on alcohol, other people get very depressed on alcohol. this is all facton or the brain's transmitters, and you drink with food, you're less likely to feel the alcohol. >> shepard: verm...

Alzheimer's usually get to the 70s and 80s the brain may not function that much. we are talking about dementia in younger population. there are 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds that may be haifing bizarre repeating words. the mri now we can use this special m rishg to look at the brain look at the gray matter and predict exactly what the diagnosis is. it's changing the entire field of naur yolg. >> it can make a diagnosis at the time but can't look at somebody in the future and say 40 years from now you may have dementia or alzheimer's. >> we are getting a lot of information it's not expensive an...

The question becomes after a while. if you stop the drug, have you in fact, detuned the brain? >> gretchin: sounds like a lot of concerns, dr. brody, thank you for your insight. >> thank you. >> gretchin: coming up on camera, if you are a parent or not, this guy tries to pick up the girl and kidnap her . the two year old boy, her brother saved her life and a record number of people and they are working with mexico to make it higher and george hamilton. ♪

Prescription pill called belviq, it's been shown to help obese patients lose 5% of their body weight in just a year by tricking the brain to think you're full after meals when you're really not. it is expected to go on sale next year. also in medical news, women who are struggling to have a baby have new reason to be hopeful. researchers just looked at nearly a 250,000 women and came up with some important findings. dr. timothy johnson has details of the study. >> reporter: some good news for couples trying to have children. a study in the new england journal of medicine finds that women who...