Research Articles and Abstracts

1. Bakir, F., Damluji, D.S., Amin-Zaki, L., Murtadha, M., Khalidi, A., Al-Rawi, N.Y., Tikriti, S., Dhahir, H.I., Clarkson, T.W., Smith, J.C., & Doherty, R.A., (1973). Methylmercury poisoning in Iraq. Science, 181:230-241.

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3. Cernichiari, E., Toribara, T.Y., Liang, L., Marsh, D.O., Berlin, M.W., Myers, G.J., Coc, C., Shamlaye, C.F., Choisy, O., Davidson, P., & Clarkson, T.W. (1995). The biological monitoring of mercury in the Seychelles study. NeuroToxicology, 16:613-628.

4. Clarkson, T.W. (2002). The three faces of mercury. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110 (Supplement 1):11-23.

5. Claudio, L., Bearer, C.F., & Wallinga, D. (1999). Assessment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency methods for identification of hazards to developing organisms, Part I: The reproduction and fertility testing guidelines. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 35(6):543-553.

6. Claudio, L., Kwa, W.C., Russell, A.L., & Wallinga, D. (2002, April 1). Testing methods for developmental neurotoxicity of environmental chemicals. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol, 164(1):1-14. Review.

7. Cox, C., Clarkson, T.W., Marsh, D.O., Amin-Zaki, L., Tikriti, S., & Myers, G.J. (1989). Dose-response analysis of infants prenatally exposed to methylmercury. An application of a single compartment model to single-strand hair analysis. Environ Res, 31: 640-649.

8. Davidson, P., Myers, G., Cox, C., Axtell, C., Shamlaye, C., Sloane-Reeves, J., Cernichiari, E., Needham, L., Choi, A., Wang, Y., Berlin, M., & Clarkson, T.W. (1998). Effects of prenatal and postnatal methylmercury exposure from fish consumption at 66 months of age: the Seychelles child development study. Journal of American Medical Association, 280:665-676.

9. Davidson, P.W., Heller, T., Janicki, M.P., & Hyer, K. (2003). The Tampa Scientific Conference on Intellectual Disability, Aging, and Health. Chicago: Rehabilitation and Research Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities, University of Illinois at Chicago.

10. Dietrich, K., et al. (2000, March 5). Lead exposure linked to antisocial behavior. Lead Safe America.

11. Fitzgerald, W., & Clarkson, T. (1991). Mercury and monomethylmercury: present and future concerns. Environmental Health Perspectives, 96:159-166.

12. Foss, J.A., (1994). The application of a functional observational battery and motor activity test in safety assessment studies, Neurobehavioral Toxicity: Analysis and Interpretation, B. Weiss and J. O'Donoghue, eds., New York: Raven Press.

13. Frumkin, H., et al., (2002). Pediatrician prescription: More environmental training needed. Environmental Health Perspectives, Science Selections, 110(8): A475.

14. Grandjean, P., Weihe, P., Burse, V.W., Needham, L.L., Storr-Hansen, E., Heinzow, B., Debes, F., Murata, K., Simonsen, H., Ellefsen, P., Budtz-Jorgensen, E., Keiding, N., & White, R.F. (2001). Neurobehavioral deficits associated with PCB in 7-year-old children prenatally exposed to seafood neurotoxicants. Neurotoxicol Teratol, 23:305-317.

15. Grandjean, P., Weihe, P., White, R.F., Debes, F., Araki, S., Yokoyama, K., Murata, K., Sorensen, N., Dahl, R., & Jorgensen, P.J. (1997). Cognitive deficit in 7-year-old children with prenatal exposure to methylmercury. Neurotoxicol Teratol, 19: 417-428.

16. Harada, Y., (1968). Congenital (or fetal) Minamata disease. Minamata Disease. Study group of Minamata Disease (Eds). Japan: Kumamoto University, pp 93-118.

17. Hernandez-Avila, M. (2000). Impact of breastfeeding on the mobilization of lead from bone. American Journal of Epidemiology, 155:420-428.

18. Hightower, J.M. & Moore, D. (2003). Mercury levels in high-end consumers of fish. Environmental Health Perspectives, 111(4) 604.

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20. Jacobs, David, et al. (2002). The prevalence of lead-based paint hazards in U.S. housing. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110:599-A606.

21. Landrigan, P. & Garg, A. (2002). Chronic effects of toxic environmental exposures on children's health. Chronic Toxicology, 40(4): 449-456.

22. Landrigan, P., Schecter, C., Lipton, J., Fahs, M., & Schwartz, J. Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: Estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilities. Environmental Health Perspectives. 110(7): 721-718.

23. Larson, S., Lakin, K., Anderson, L., Kwak, N., Lee, J., & Anderson, D. (2001). Prevalence of MR and developmental disabilities: Estimates from the 1994/1995 National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplements. American Journal of Mental Retardatio, 106(3): 231-252.

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26. Mendola, P., Selevan, S., Gutter, S., & Rice, D. (2002). Environmental factors associated with a spectrum of neurodevelopmental deficits. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 8(3): 188-197.

27. Myers, G., Davidson, P., Cox, C., Shamlaye, C., Palumbo, D., Cernichiari, E., Sloane-Reeves, J., Wilding, J., Kost, J., Huang, L-S., Clarkson, & T.W. Prenatal methylmercury exposure from fish consumption: associations at 9 years of age in the Seychelles Child Development Study. Lancet, in press.

28. Myers. G.J., & Davidson, P.W. (2000). Twenty-seven years studying the human neurotoxicity of methylmercury exposure. Environ Res, 83;275-285.

29. Needleman, H.L. et al. (2002, Nov-Dec). Bone lead levels in adjudicated delinquents. A case control study. Neurotoxicology Teratology, 24(6): 711-7.

30. Newacheck, P., Stein, R., Bauman, L., & Hung, Y. (2003). Disparities in the prevalence of disability between black & white children. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 157(3) 244-248.

31. Ponessa, Joseph. (2001). Draft curriculum for child care centers to protect young children from environmental toxins. Rutgers University Cooperative Extension, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

32. Rice, D., Evangelista de Duffard, A., Duffard, R., et al. (1996). Lessons for neurotoxicology from selected model compounds: SGOMSEC joint report. Environ Health Perspect 104(suppl 2):205-215.

33. Schroeder, S.R. (2002). MR and developmental disabilities influenced by environmental neurotoxic insults. Environmental Health Perspectives. 108(3): 395-9.

34. Takizawa, Y., & Kitamura, S. (2001). Estimation of the incidence of mercury exposure in the Minamata and Niigata areas using mathematical model from Iraqi poisoning. In Y. Takizawa & M. Osame (eds). Understanding Minamata Disease: Methylmercury Poisoning in Minamata and Niigata Japan. Tokyo: Japan Public Health Association, pp. 27-32.

35. Wallinga. D.B. (1999). Pesticides and developmental neurotoxicity: Assuring children's safety in the context of the food quality protection act. Neurotoxicology, 20(1):125.

36. Wallinga, David. (1998, April). Putting children first: Making pesticide levels in food safer for infants and children. Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C., April 1998.

37. World Health Organization. (2001). Healthy ageing-adults with intellectual disabilities: Summative report. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14: 256-275.