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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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1 Introduction and Background
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... . Workshop co-chair Deborah Cory-Slechta, professor of environmental medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, referred to environmental chemical exposures as "the ignored environmental risk factors for 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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... Invited presentations will be designed to: • Provide an overview of what is known about neurotoxic exposures and how they lead to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders; • Explore how new technologies can be harnessed to identify previously unknown neurotoxic chemicals; • Consider whether algorithms can be developed to better predict the ef fects of cumulative exposures and interactions across the life span on brain health; and • Discuss research gaps and collaborative opportunities between neuro scientists and environmental health scientists. The committee will develop the agenda for the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions.
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... Cory-Slechta added that because both COVID-19 and toxic environmental exposures preferentially affect communities of color and low socioeconomic status, issues related to environmental justice must also be considered in discussions of environmental neuroscience. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES A goal of the workshop, said Koroshetz, was to bring the fields of mechanistic and clinical neuroscience closer together with the fields of neurotoxicology and environmental health sciences.
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... Research gaps and opportunities are summarized in Chapter 5, and frameworks for moving forward as well as opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration are discussed in Chapter 6.
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