Environmental Hazards and Neurodevelopment (eBook, PDF)

Where Ecology and Well-Being Connect
Redaktion: Croft, Cindy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.The rate of identification of children with neurobiological disabilities has been on the increase in recent years. Millions of dollars in research are being spent to understand the factors influencing these increases. The articles within this compendium shed vital light on this issue, confirming

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498714389
• Artikelnr.: 42369019

Autorenporträt

Edited by Cindy Croft, MA, is director of the Center for Inclusive Child Care at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She teaches for the Center for Early Education and Development at the University of Minnesota and in the early childhood program at Concordia University. She has authored two books, The Six Keys: Promoting Children's Mental Health and Children and Challenging Behavior: Making Inclusion Work and she provides training and consultation to educators of children with various disabilities. She is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Early Childhood and School-Age Trainers Association, the Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health, and the Minnesota Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Division.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview. America's Children and the Environment: Neurodevelopmental.
Strategy for Comparing the Contributions of Environmental Chemicals and
Other Risk Factors to Neurodevelopment of Children. Decoding
Neurodevelopment: Findings on Environmental Exposures and Synaptic
Plasticity. Seven-Year Neurodevelopmental Scores and Prenatal Exposure to
Chlorpyrifos, a Common Agricultural Pesticide. Fetal and Neonatal Endocrine
Disruptors. Autism. A Research Strategy to Discover the Environmental
Causes of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. A Key Role for an
Impaired Detoxification Mechanism in the Etiology and Severity of Autism
Spectrum Disorders. Assessment of Infantile Mineral Imbalances in Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Urinary Porphyrin Excretion in Neurotypical and
Autistic Children. Lymphocytes from a Population of Children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Siblings Exhibit Hypersensitivity to
Thimerosal. ADHD, Learning Disabilities, and Other Neurodevelopmental
Disorders. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Focused Overview for
Children's Environmental Health Researchers. Urinary Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbon Metabolites and Attention/Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
Learning Disability, and Special Education in U.S. Children Aged 6 To 15.
Serum Perfluorinated Compound Concentration and Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children 5-18 Years of Age. In Utero and
Childhood Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Exposures and
Neurodevelopment in the CHAMACOS Study. Index.