Environmental Neuroscience Advancing the Understanding of How Chemical Exposures Impact Brain Health and Disease: Proceedings of a Workshop (2020) / Chapter Skim
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6 Potential Opportunities for Action and Multidisciplinary Collaborations
6 Potential Opportunities for Action and Multidisciplinary Collaborations
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. • Addressing the problems associated with exposure to neuro toxicants will require an increased sense of urgency among public health and environmental health practitioners (Breysse)
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Throughout the workshop, several participants highlighted potential opportunities to address policy concerns in the field, foster multidisciplinary collaborations to advance research, and motivate action among stakeholders. POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE Improving human brain health by reducing exposures to environmental toxicants will require both an expanded research enterprise, as discussed in Chapter 5, as well as public policy changes that prioritize prevention of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, said David Bellinger.
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To make these messages resonate with policy makers, population health research -- which focuses on the multiple factors that affect health outcomes in and across groups of people -- may play an important role, said Allison Willis. She and her colleagues in the Division of Economic Research at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a public health framework for neurotoxicant exposure, disease risk, and public health outcomes.
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Payne-Sturges added that undergraduate and graduate programs in neuroscience also need to incorporate into their programs of study courses that raise awareness about the policy implications of neuroscience research and that emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary collaborations between neuroscientists and environmental health scientists, with a focus on research translation. OPPORTUNITIES FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION A broad approach that brings together expertise from multiple disciplines is needed to craft solutions to the problems imposed by environmental exposure to neurotoxicants, said Feldman.
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biomonitoring of the chemical demonstrates levels greater than 10 percent in biospecimens or greater than 20 percent in environmental media such as air, house dust, food, or drinking water; and (3) potential for toxicity including neurotoxicity using data from EPA ToxCast, a high-throughput assay program that has screened thousands of compounds from many different endpoints including neurotoxicity.
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SOURCE: Presented by Marisa Bartolomei, June 25, 2020.
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To increase understanding of gene–environment interactions, Richard Woychik from NIEHS advocated more intersection between environmental health scientists and neuroscientists, especially neuroscientists studying genetics. Beate Ritz noted that her research has only been possible because of funding for a multidisciplinary center for neurodegeneration at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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