Chapter 6 – NEUROBEHAVIORAL TOXICITY ASSESSMENTS
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Testing must characterize cognitive lapses and mood changes in healthy individuals faced with relevant operational stressors, including chemical exposures and interactions with other stressors, and should be based on understanding effects of final common pathways in brain physiology (e.g. hypoor hyperglycemia, and hypoxia, oxidative stress, and inflammation). Stressors may affect a common hierarchy of deficits and batteries could be reduced to a few tests such as simple reaction time, matching-to-sample, running memory, math processing, and code substitution; alternatively, these tests together might provide a differential diagnosis. The ultimate goal of unobtrusive real-time mental status monitoring may one day provide the most sensitive indication of a neurochemical exposure.
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