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Endocrine disruptors, brain, and behavior /

Our world and bodies are becoming increasingly polluted with chemicals capable of interfering with our hormones and thus, possibly, our present and future neural and mental health. This book focuses on if and how these chemicals, known as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs), affect the development...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patisaul, Heather B. (Author), Belcher, Scott M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:Oxford series in behavioral neuroendocrinology.
Subjects:
Endocrine disrupting chemicals > Health aspects.
Endocrine glands > Diseases.
Risk assessment.
Endocrine Disruptors > toxicity
Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
Endocrine System Diseases
Neurotoxins > adverse effects
Neurosecretory Systems > physiopathology
Neurodevelopmental Disorders > etiology
Risk Assessment
Glandes endocrines > Maladies.
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Risk assessment
Endocrine glands > Diseases
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The chemical landscape
  • Defining endocrine disruption
  • Landmark EDCs of the past and present
  • The neuroendocrine system and general mechanisms of endocrine disruption
  • Receptor and enzyme mechanisms as targets for endocrine disruptors
  • Endocrine disruptors and neurobehavioral disorders
  • Risk assessment and chemical regulatory policy in the US and abroad
  • The path forward.