Assessing the relation of chemical and non-chemical stressors with risk-taking related behavior and adaptive individual attributes among adolescents living near the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site

Background: Early life exposure to neurotoxicants and non-chemical psychosocial stressors can impede development of prefrontal cortical functions that promote behavioral regulation and thereby may predispose to adolescent risk-taking related behaviors (e.g., substance use or high-risk sexual activit...

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Main Authors: Verónica M. Vieira, Jonathan I. Levy, M. Patricia Fabian, Susan Korrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Environment International
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020321541