Memory Deficits and Industrial Toxicant Exposure: A Comparative Study of Hard Metal, Solvent and Asbestos Workers
| Autor: | Catherine M Jordan, R D Whitman, Michael Harbut |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Asbestosis Occupational disease Neuropsychological Tests Audiology medicine.disease_cause Asbestos Developmental psychology chemistry.chemical_compound Occupational Exposure medicine Humans Attention Memory disorder Lung Memory Disorders Hard metal General Neuroscience Cognition General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Oxygen Radiography Memory Short-Term chemistry Metallurgy Solvents Female Verbal memory Psychology Toxicant |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Neuroscience. 90:113-128 |
| ISSN: | 1543-5245 0020-7454 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/00207459709000631 |
| Popis: | Memory functioning was examined in ex-factory workers with hard metal disease, resulting from exposure to alloys utilizing cobalt. Since these workers are also exposed to organic solvents and may suffer from chronic hypoxia as a result of their pulmonary disorder, solvent and asbestos workers, as well as an unexposed matched sample, served as controls. Results demonstrated deficits in the allocation of attentional resources and in short-term verbal memory. A pattern of findings across several tests suggested that repetition or delay is important for adequate memory performance in individuals exposed to hard metal, implicating a deficit in encoding or slowed consolidation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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