| Document ID (ISN) | 47236 |
| CIS number |
86-1934 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0339-6517 - Documents pour le médecin du travail |
| Year |
1986 |
| Convention or series no. |
Fiche médico-technique No.15
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| Author(s) |
Dally S. |
| Title |
Solvents and organic mental illnesses |
| Original title |
Solvants et troubles mentaux organiques [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Apr. 1986, No.25, p.11-16. 51 ref. |
| Abstract |
Definition of organic mental illness. Description of such illnesses reported in the literature: methodology, retrospective studies, occupational groups concerned (painters, in particular), studies of certain solvents (carbon disulfide, kerosene, toluene and xylenes, white spirit, trichloroethylene, other solvents). Difficulties in transferring epidemiological results to clinical studies. Methods of research (psychometric tests, electrophysiological methods, scanners, measurement of blood flow in the brain). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
ethanol; alcoholism; occupational medicine; mental disorders; organic solvents; diseases of nervous system |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
trichloroethylene; toluene; epidemiologic study; xylene; white spirit |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Toxic and dangerous substances
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Alcohols
Alcohol and drug abuse
Mental health
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