The Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks

ISBN-13: 9780306441486 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 3 str.

Robert Isaacson; R. L. Isaacson; K. F. Jensen

Opis

With its companion (v.2, see following entry), addresses the risks to optimal brain function arising from food: its quantity and appropriateness, adulteration, processing, and contamination. The effects of malnutrition and general methods of assessment of toxicological damage are addressed in v.1, i

Spis treści

Malnutrition: Malnutrition and the Developing Central Nervous System (P.J. Morgane et al.). Prolonged Dietary Restriction and its Effects on Dopamine Systems of the Brain (F.M. Scalzo). Dietary Factors that Influence the Neural Substrates of Memory (G.L. Wenk). Neurotoxins in Herbs and Food Plants (R.J. Huxtable). Malnutrition and the Vulnerable Brain (R.W. Russell). Methods: The Evaluation of Behavioral Changes Produced by Consumption of Environmentally Contaminated Fish (H.B. Daly). Animal Models of Cognitive Development in Neurotoxicity (M.E. Stanton). Neurotoxicants and Limbic Kindling (M.E. Gilbert). Testing Visual System Toxicity Using Visual Evoked Potentials (W.K. Boyes). The Use of Selective Silver Degeneration Stains in Neurotoxicity (C.D. Balaban). Caveats in Hazard Assessment (D.B. Miller). Index.