Donna Mergler

TL;DR: A significant negative correlation between maternal total triiodothyronine levels and three non-coplanar congeners, three pesticides, and inorganic Hg in healthy women recruited during pregnancy is found.

TL;DR: Exposure to manganese in water was associated with poorer neurobehavioral performances in children, even at low levels commonly encountered in North America.

TL;DR: This symposium comprised five oral presentations dealing with recent findings on Mn-related cognitive and motor changes from epidemiological studies across the life span, highlighting the usefulness of functional neuroimaging of the central nervous system to evaluate cognitive as well as motor deficits in Mn-exposed welders.

TL;DR: A literature review of mortality and morbidity studies related to suicide among pesticide-exposed populations, and of human and animal studies of central nervous system toxicity related to organophosphate pesticides found a causal association between OP use and suicide.

TL;DR: The findings of this preliminary study add further support for Hg cardiovascular toxicity among a non-indigenous fish-eating population in the Brazilian Amazon.