Cognitive deficits at age 22 years associated with prenatal exposure to methylmercury

Cortex

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 358-369

  Debes, Frodi ^a   Weihe, Pal ^a   Grandjean, Philippe ^b,c  

^a FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Methylmercury compounds; Neuropsychological measures; Prenatal exposure delayed effects; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

METHYLMERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOSTON NAMING TEST; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETUS BLOOD; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEA FOOD;

COGNITION DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEAFOOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84956592830     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.017     Document Type: Article

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