Vulnerability of children and the developing brain to neurotoxic hazards

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2000, Pages 375-381

  Weiss, Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral teratology; Developmental toxicity; Earnings; Food quality protection act; IQ; Multiple risks; Parkinson's disease; Pesticides; Social environment

Indexed keywords

FOOD ADDITIVE; FOOD DYE; LEAD; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOBACCO; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0033926801     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3454523     Document Type: Article

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