Neuropsychiatric symptoms and past manganese exposure in a ferro-alloy plant

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-297

  Bouchard, Maryse ^a   Mergler, Donna ^a   Baldwin, Mary ^a   Panisset, Michel ^b   Roels, Harry A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; BSI; Cohort study; depression; Exposure effect; Hostility; Mn; Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; WORKER;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IRON; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANGANESE; MENTAL DISORDERS; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUEBEC; SILICONES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249803566     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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