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. 2006 Feb;114(2):A100-7.
doi: 10.1289/ehp.114-a100.

New thinking on neurodevelopment

Michael Szpir

New thinking on neurodevelopment

Michael Szpir. Environ Health Perspect. 2006 Feb.
No abstract available

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Percentage of school-age children in the United States who suffer from a disability that affects their behavior, memory, or ability to learn. Pediatrics, March 1994
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81.5 to 167
Annual cost in billions of dollars for neurodevelopmental disorders in the United States. EHP Supplements, December 2001
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4–5 to 30–60
Increase from the 1980s to the 1990s in the number of U.S. children per 10,000 diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2003
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250
Percentage of increase in the number of U.S. children diagnosed with ADHD between 1990 and 1998. CNS Drugs, February 2002
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191
Percentage of increase in the number of U.S. children in special education programs classified with learning disabilities between 1977 and 1994. Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, Volume 12, 1998
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83
Percentage of decrease in the CDC acceptable level for lead in blood from 1960 to the current level, set in 1991. EHP, September 2005
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8.7
Annual cost in billions of dollars of methylmercury-induced toxicity (in terms of lost productivity). EHP, May 2005
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6
Percentage of U.S. wells with a high enough manganese content to potentially put some children at risk for diminished intellectual function. EHP, January 2006
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7-fold
The increased risk of schizophrenia in offspring if the mother had influenza during her first trimester of pregnancy. Archives of General Psychiatry, August 2004
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67
Percentage of high-production-volume chemicals produced in or imported into the United States that have not been examined for neurotoxicity. Toxic Ignorance, 1997
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