Neurobehavioural tests and systems to assess neurotoxic exposures in the workplace and community
Anger, WK
| HERO ID | 630309 |
|---|---|
| In Press | No |
| Year | 2003 |
| Title | Neurobehavioural tests and systems to assess neurotoxic exposures in the workplace and community |
| Authors | Anger, WK |
| Journal | Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Page Numbers | 531-538, 474 |
| Abstract | The nervous system has, since the earliest recorded history of workplace hazards, been a sensitive target organ for chemical exposures.w1 Technological advances as well as disasters such as the mercury exposures during the 1950s in Minimataw2 and the 1970s in Iraqw3 led to reduced workplace exposures during the mid 1900s and a consequent shift from the detection of obvious debility (for example, tremors, paralysis) detectable with even gross clinical methods,w4, w5 to the detection of subtle subclinical effects. Hänninen and colleagues1 were the first to tackle this issue by studying carbon disulfide exposures in the viscose rayon industry. Hänninen, a clinical psychologist at Finland’s Institute of Occupational Health, employed the tools of her discipline, and experimental psychologists brought in the tools employed in the laboratory. A new field, human behavioural neurotoxicology,w6 began to emerge. |
| Doi | 10.1136/oem.60.7.531 |
| Wosid | WOS:000183641900015 |
| Is Certified Translation | No |
| Dupe Override | No |
| Is Public | Yes |