Response inhibition and error monitoring during a visual Go/No-Go task in Inuit children exposed to lead, polychlorinated biphenyls, and methylmercury

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 608-615

  Boucher, Olivier ^a   Burden, Matthew J ^b   Muckle, Gina ^a,c   Saint Amour, Dave ^d,e   Ayotte, Pierre ^a,c   Dewailly, Éric ^a,c   Nelson, Charles A ^f   Jacobson, Sandra W ^b   Jacobson, Joseph L ^b  

^a University Laval   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Error monitoring; Event related potentials; Executive function; Lead; Methylmercury; Neurotoxicity; Online 5 december 2011; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Response inhibition. environ health perspect 120:608 615 (2012). http: dx.doi.org 10.1289 ehp.1103828

Indexed keywords

LEAD; MERCURY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR PROCESSING; ESKIMO; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INUITS; LEAD; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUEBEC; REACTION TIME; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 84859342239     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103828     Document Type: Article

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