CNS Developmental Issues (DOHAD Concept) Associated with Exposure to Pollutants during Gestation, Lactation/Infancy or Adolescence
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impact of pollutants on human health has been systematically studied for more than a century now. The considerable amount of information amassed thus far notwithstanding, significant gaps in knowledge regarding the potential harmful effects of known pollutants, and of substances that may be considered as such, prevent the adoption of public policies that would result in stricter norms regarding safe environmental levels. Often, concentrations that are generally considered harmless for adults can result in severe insults to immature organisms, either by disrupting development in ways that immediately impact the individual’s health or by altering aspects of development that will result in late-onset, long-term health issues, in line with the Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases (DOHaD) concept. The brain is particularly vulnerable to insults during its ontogenetic development due to the complexity of the process as well as to the fact that it is one of the organs that takes longer to achieve its mature form. Thus, this Special Issues aims to address short- and long-term impacts that known and potential pollutants have on the development of brain structure and physiology as well as on metal health.
Dr. Alex Manhães
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nervous system
- development
- pollution
- microplastics and nanoplastics
- bisphenol
- pesticides
- PFAS/PFOS
- petrochemicals
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