Browsing SPH Scholarly Articles by Author "Julvez, Jordi"
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Environment and Brain Development: Challenges in the Global Context
Julvez, Jordi; Paus, Tomas; Bellinger, David C; Eskenazi, Brenda; Tiemeier, Henning; Pearce, Neil; Ritz, Beate; White, Tonya; Ramchandani, Paul; Gispert, Juan; Desrivières, Sylvane; Brouwer, Rachel; Boucher, Olivier; Alemany, Silvia; López-Vicente, Mónica; Suades-González, Elisabeth; Forns, Joan; Grandjean, Philippe; Sunyer, Jordi (S. Karger AG, 2015) -
Genetic susceptibility to methylmercury developmental neurotoxicity matters
Julvez, Jordi; Grandjean, Philippe (Frontiers Media SA, 2013) -
Neurobehavioral Deficits and Increased Blood Pressure in School-Age Children Prenatally Exposed to Pesticides
Harari, Raul; Julvez, Jordi; Murata, Katsuyuki; Barr, Dana; Bellinger, David C.; Debes, Frodi; Grandjean, Philippe (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)Background: The long-term neurotoxicity risks caused by prenatal exposures to pesticides are unclear, but a previous pilot study of Ecuadorian school children suggested that blood pressure and visuospatial processing may ... -
Prenatal Methylmercury Exposure and Genetic Predisposition to Cognitive Deficit at Age 8 Years
Julvez, Jordi; Smith, George Davey; Golding, Jean; Ring, Susan; Pourcain, Beate St.; Gonzalez, Juan Ramon; Grandjean, Philippe (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2013)BACKGROUND: Cognitive consequences at school age associated with prenatal methylmercury (MeHg) exposure may need to take into account nutritional and sociodemographic cofactors as well as relevant genetic polymorphisms. ... -
Sensitivity of continuous performance test (CPT) at age 14years to developmental methylmercury exposure
Julvez, Jordi; Debes, Frodi; Weihe, Pal; Choi, Anna; Grandjean, Philippe (Elsevier BV, 2010)Hit Reaction Time latencies (HRT) in the Continuous Performance Test (CPT) measure the speed of visual information processing. The latencies may involve different neuropsychological functions depending on the time from ... -
Thyroid Dysfunction as a Mediator of Organochlorine Neurotoxicity in Preschool Children
Julvez, Jordi; Debes, Frodi; Weihe, Pal; Choi, Anna Lai; Grandjean, Philippe (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2011)Background: Exposure to organochlorine compounds (OCs) can alter thyroid function in humans, and hypothyroidism during early life can adversely affect a child’s neurodevelopment. Objectives: In this study we aimed to assess ...