Toxic threats to neurologic development of children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2001, Pages 813-816

  Schettler, Ted ^a  

^a Science and Environmental Health Network   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Developmental disabilities; Learning disabilities; Metals; Neurodevelopment; Neurotoxicology; PCBs; Pesticides; Polychlorin ated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICOTINE; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANAMNESIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 0035684801     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109s6813     Document Type: Review

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