Chemical Brain Injury

Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn is Ralph Edgington Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. His career spans problem-solving in respiratory failure, emphysema, asbestosis, and byssinosis at Duke University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Since 1982 he has investigated chemicals and the brain. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Environmental Health and has published over 200 scientific papers.

Introduction - the brain's new chemical plaques mimic ageing; neurobehavioural effects and exposure epidemiology; methods for measuring neurobehavioural function and for deriving prediction equations for tests in people unexposed versus those exposed to chemicals; chemically exposed patients; hydrogen sulphide exposure from refineries in cities; chlorine and cresylate from a train derailment; adverse effects from hydrogen chloride; effects of airborne arsenic at Bryan-College station, Texas; neurobehavioural effects of residential chlordane; visual and neurobehavioural impairment associated with polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs); exposures to chemical mixtures rich in trochloroethylene - residential and occupational; combustion - toluene rich vapour exposure; aluminium recycling vinyl chloride and other contaminants; diesel exhaust; mechanisms of brain damage from chemicals; prognosis and treatment; future of neurotoxicology; protecting brains worldwide strategies.