FORUM Cognitive Tests: Interpretation for Neurotoxicity? (Workshop Summary)

Alcohol and Cognition; From Neurotoxicity Prevention to Cognitive Rehabilitation

Alcohol provokes different molecular pathways contributing to a clinically significant neurotoxicity in different brain areas. Affected cognition in alcoholics can influence both daily life functioning and alcohol craving management abilities. Preventing alcohol-induced neurotoxicity with different neuroprotective pharmacological interventions is receiving strong scientific backgrounds from pub...

Summary Report of the Peer Review Workshop on the Neurotoxicity of Tetrachloroethylene (Perchloroethylene) Discussion Paper EPA/600/R- 04/041 April 2004

How to Work Collaboratively Within the Health System: Workshop Summary and Facilitator Reflection

Effectiveness in health services research requires development of specific knowledge and skills for working in partnership with health system decision-makers. In an initial effort to frame capacity-building activities for researchers, we designed a workshop on working collaboratively within the health system. The workshop, based on recent research exploring health syste...

Guidelines for Neurotoxicity Risk Assessment

policy and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today publishing in final form a document entitled Guidelines for Neurotoxicity Risk Assessment (hereafter " Guidelines "). These Guidelines were developed as part of an interoffice guidelines dev...

Potential mechanisms for chemotherapy-induced impairments in cognitive function.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the domains of cognitive function and their corresponding neuroanatomic structures as well as present current evidence for neurotoxicity associated with specific chemotherapeutic agents and potential mechanisms for chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairments. DATA SOURCES Published research articles, review articles, and textbooks. DATA SYNTHESIS Chemotherapy doe...