Losing Our Minds(1st Edition) How Environmental Pollution Impairs Human Intelligence and Mental Health (Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology) by ProfessorBarbaraDemeneix, Natural History Museum Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-991751-8, ISBN: 0-19-991751-5
"The global prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders is accelerating. Numbers of children affected by an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States have reached 1 in 88 -- 1 in 56 among boys -- and even more children have developed attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD). The burden of these disorders to individuals and society overall is enormous; ASD alone costs the United States a staggering $130 billion, with ADHD ..."
Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Losing Our Minds: Effects of Chemical Pollution on the Intellectual Capacity and Mental Health of Future Generations by ProfessorBarbaraDemeneix Digital, 313 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-991752-5, ISBN: 0-19-991752-3
"The group of Kevin Crofton in the United States carried out pioneering work on
PBDEs, treating weanling rats for just 4 days to different commercial mixtures and
saw up to 80% reductions in circulating T4 levels (Zhou, Ross, DeVito, & Crofton,
2001). The increased hepatic metabolism could be due to displacement of T4
from its principal distributor proteins, transthyretin (TTR) and thyroxine-binding
globulin (TBG), an interaction th ..."