Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks: Malnutrition and Hazard Assessment

by Robert L. Isaacson, K. F. Jensen

Overview

This three volume series utilizes a multidisiplinary approach to evaluate the effects of pollutants on sensory, motor, and emotional functions, as well as learning, memory, and intellectual capacities. The current volume focuses on malnutrition and general methods of assessment of toxicological damage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306441486
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	01/28/1992
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

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, in chapters on the developing central nervous system, the dopamine systems of the brain, neural substrates of memory, neurotoxins in herbs and food plants, animal models of cognitive development, behavioral changes produced by consumption of environmentally contaminated fish, limbic kindling, testing visual system toxicity, caveats in hazard assessment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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