The Vulnerable Brain and Environmental Risks. Volume 1: Malnutrition and Hazard Assessment

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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.