Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- List of contributors.- Environmental Heavy Metals and Mental Disorders of Children in Developing Countries.- Exposure Assessment to Heavy Metals in the Environment. Measures to Eliminate or Reduce the Exposure to Critical Receptors.- Heavy Metals Activity Mechanisms at Cellular Level and Possible Action on Children Bodies.- Evolving Understanding of the Relationship between Mercury Exposure and Autism.- Hearing Changes in Children Exposed to Arsenic in Neurotoxicity Context.- Lead Occurrence in Children’s Biological Fluids from Baia Mare Area, Romania.- Changing Children’s Blood Lead Level in Hungary.- Analytical Approaches for Sampling and Sample Preparation for Heavy Metals Analysis in Biological Materials.- Heavy Metals Determination in Environmental and Biological Samples.- Analyses of Heavy Metal Mixtures in the Environmental Media.- Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (flame, electrothermal, vapor generation) in Environmental, Biological, and Food Analysis.- In Situ Elemental and Isotopic Analyses of Heavy Metals in Environmental Water Solutions.- A Heavy Metal Environmental Threat Resulting from Combustion of Biofuels of Plant Origin.- Heavy Metals as Persistent Problem for Balkan Countries.- Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Soils around Kremikovtzi Smelter (Bulgaria).- Comparison Study of Physicochemical Parameters Evaluation between Danube River and AXIOS-VARDAR River Valley (2003-2009).- Atmospheric Heavy Metals Pollution: Exposure and Prevention Policies in Mediterranean Basin.- The Problem of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Republic of Armenia: Overview and Strategies of Balancing Socioeconomic and Ecological Development.- How to Grow Environmentally-Sound Biofuels.- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Heavy Metal Pollution and Effects on Child Mental Development – Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies: Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations.- Subject Index.