Neuropsychological measures of attention and impulse control among 8-year-old children exposed prenatally to organochlorines

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 904-909

  Sagiv, Sharon K ^a,b   Thurston, Sally W ^c   Bellinger, David C ^d,e   Altshul, Larisa M ^e,f   Korrick, Susan A ^b,e  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Environmental Health & Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Epidemiology; Maternal exposure; Organochlorines; P,p' dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene (p,p ' DDE); Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

Indexed keywords

1, 1 DICHLORO 2, 2 BIS (4 CHLOROPHENYL) ETHYLENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TEST; CORD SERUM; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COHORT STUDIES; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84862001715     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104372     Document Type: Article

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