Assessing the connection between organophosphate pesticide poisoning and mental health: A comparison of neuropsychological symptoms from clinical observations, animal models and epidemiological studies

Cortex

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 405-416

  Stallones, Lorann ^a   Beseler, Cheryl L ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Mood disorders; Organophosphate poisoning; Review; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84956788177     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.10.002     Document Type: Review

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