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dyslimbic
02-17-2007, 06:19 PM
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/1841207.htm

Your brain is a resilient organ, but vulnerable to nasty environmental insults too. This week, in the first of two shows navigating our neurotoxic world: it's been dubbed 'Chemofog' and 'Chemobrain' by cancer survivors: short-term memory loss, foggy thoughts, fatigue - lingering sometimes years after chemotherapy. Could chemo be doing more than killing off cancer cells? New research suggests it may be more toxic to your nerve cells than cancer itself. Natasha Mitchell investigates.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2007/1846920.htm

Lead in paint. Methylmercury in fish. Arsenic in groundwater. Just some of the toxic insults on our vulnerable brains. But are they the thin end of the industrial chemical wedge? Could the world's children be experiencing a silent pandemic in neurodevelopmental disorders? Harvard's Professor Phillipe Grandjean thinks so, and joins Deborah Cory-Slechta at Rutgers University to unpick the latest compelling science. Don't miss two of the world's trailblazers in neurotoxicology.

annelb
02-18-2007, 02:25 PM
Don't overlook our foods. Gluten (wheat and related grains) can cause neurological disease.

http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/72/5/560 Gluten sensitivity as a neurological illness M Hadjivassiliou, R A Grünewald and G A B Davies-Jones

If you want to read more about the neurological manifestations of gluten sensitivity go to The Gluten File that can be found on the Gluten Sensitivity/Celiac Disease forum here on BT http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=-1&f=152 It is the 3rd sticky.

Anne