A Small Dose of Neurotox

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NEUROTOXICOLOGY DOSSIER

“The upsurge of interest in recent years in academia, industry, and government on the effects of toxic chemicals on the nervous system has created a new discipline of neurotoxicology.”
Peter S. Spencer & Herbert H. Schaumberg, in Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology, 1980 (full text of book on line) (accessed: 28 December 2004)

“You cannot reach your full genetic potential with a damaged nervous system.”
S.G. Gilbert

What is Neurotoxicity?
An adverse change in the chemistry, structure or function of the nervous system during development or at maturity, following exposure to a chemical or physical agent

REFERENCES / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

European, Asian, and International Agencies

• Organization For Economic Co-Operation And Development (OECD) - Chemical Safety. Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  This OECD Site contains general information on chemical safety as well as specific testing guidelines for neurotoxic effects of chemicals.
• International Neurotoxicology Association (INA). Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  Site provides links to neurotoxicology testing guidelines and other information on neurotoxicology.
• University of Stockholm, Department of Neurochemistry & Neurotoxicology. Online. Available HTTP: <> (accessed: 10 April 2003).
• International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  IBRO is a non-profit international organization for neuroscientists."
• Universiteit Utrecht - Neurotoxicology and Immunotoxicology (RITOX). Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  RITOX offers information and training in neurotoxicology.
  

North American Agencies

• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Neurotoxicology Division (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  Information on FDA and neurotoxicology.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Neurotoxicology Division. Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  This EPA site provides information on neurotoxicology.
• U.S. National Institute of Health - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  NINDS is works to shape "the future of research and its relationship to brain diseases".
• U.S. National Research Council - Environmental Neurotoxicology. Online. (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  Publication available on the web at this site.

Non-Government Organizations

• Neurotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology. (accessed: 18 July 2005).
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN). (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  "SFN is a nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system."
• Neuroscience Database Gateway The SfN Brain Information Group and the Neuroscience Database Gateway -- all you ever wanted to know.
• ALS Association (ALSA) (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  The mission of The ALS Association is to find a cure for and improve living with ALS.
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). (accessed: 10 April 2003).
  NRDC site provides information on children's health and neurotoxicology.

References

• Anger, W.K. (1986), Workplace Exposures. in Neurobehavioral Toxicology, Z. Annau (ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 443 pages.
  
• U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System, OTA-BA-436 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1990.)
  
• Chang, Louis W. and Slikker, William, Jr. (Eds). Neurotoxicology: Approaches and Methods. Academic Press, San Diego (1995). 851 pages.
  
• Spencer, Peter S. and Schaumburg, Herbert H. (Eds). Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology. Oxford University Press. 2nd edition (2000). 1152 pages. 1980 editon with micrographs is on line (full text of book on line) (accessed: 28 December 2004)