Behavioral Measures of Neurotoxicity

Roger W. Russell, Pamela Ebert Flattau, and Andrew M. Pope, Editors; U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Psychological Science; National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Introduction; 3 Are Neurotoxins Driving Us Crazy? Planetary Observations on the Causes of Neurodegenerative Diseases of Old Age; 4 Part I. Assessment of Neurobehavioral Tests Now in Use; 5 Methods in Behavioral Toxicology: Current Test Batteries and Need for Development; 6 The Current Status of Test Development in Neurobehavioral Toxicology; 7 Human Neurobehavioral Toxicology Testing; 8 Neurobehavioral Tests: Problems, Potential, and Prospects; 9 Part II. Assessment of Animal Models: What Has Worked and What Is Needed; 10 Exposure to Neurotoxins Throughout the Life Span: Animal Models for Linking Neurochemical Effects to Behavioral Consequences; 11 Animal Models of Dementia: Their Relevance to Neurobehavioral Toxicology Testing; 12 Bridging Experimental Animal and Human Behavioral Toxicology Studies; 13 Methods and Issues in Evaluating the Neurotoxic Effects of Organic Solvents; 14 Animal Models: What Has Worked and What Is Needed; 15 Part III. Chemical Time Bombs: Environmental Causes of Neurodegenerative Diseases; 16 On the Identification and Measurement of Chemical Time Bombs: A Behavior Development Perspective; 17 Neurobehavioral Time Bombs: Their Nature and Their Mechanisms; 18 Neurobehavioral Toxicity of Selected Environmental Chemicals: Clinical and Subclinical Aspects; 19 The Health Effects of Environmental Lead Exosure: Closing Pandora's Box; 20 Chemical Time Bombs: Environmental Causes of Neurodegenerative Diseases; 21 Part IV. Behavioral Aspects of Neurotoxicity: Regional Issues; 22 Neurobehavioral Toxicity Testing in China; 23 Regional Issues in the Development of the Neurobehavioral Core Test Battery; 24 Issues in the Development of Neurobehavioral Toxicity Tests in India; 25 Regional Issues in Neurobehavioral Testing: An Overview; 26 Part V. Recommendations for Further Research and Testing; 27 Environmental Modulation of Neurobehavioral Toxicity; 28 Computerized Performance Testing in Neurotoxicology: Why, What, How, and Whereto?; 29 The Scope and Promise of Behavioral Toxicology; 30 Appendix: Symposium Agenda; 31 Index