Caroline was exposed to a lively intellectual environment quite different from anything she had experienced previously.
By then, he had spent nearly half his life in Palestine, where he moved in 1908, but he was born in the very different world of Jewish Eastern Europe, and from 1912 to 1924 he lived in Germany, where he was exposed to the latest literary and intellectual currents.
Priority #3: Getting kids into an accelerated primary care regimen for the long term Long after the immediate crisis is over, children exposed to lead can suffer negative intellectual or behavioral consequences.
Cognitive and behavioural outcomes in individuals exposed to alcohol in utero include intellectual impairment, adaptive dysfunction and deficits in executive functioning, learning and memory [ 2].
Although evidence abounds that people with intellectual disabilities are exposed to stigma and discrimination, few interventions have attempted to tackle stigma among the general public.
Indeed, Abrams et al 37 showed that subjects exposed to negative aging stereotypes had decreased intellectual performance (including on memory tasks) when compared to a neutral group.
When citizens are exposed to propaganda they must use means of intellectual self-defense in order to deconstruct it.
We previously described lower intellectual functioning among children exposed to low to moderate levels of drinking water As (WAs) in two separate studies in Bangladesh (Wasserman et al. 2004, 2007).
Because it is reported to have minimal cultural bias and to be capable of evaluating the intellectual status of children exposed to toxic chemicals (Sattler 1986; Sizemore and Amler 1996), the RCPM has been used in a number of studies of environmental exposures in children in Poland and elsewhere (Szustrowa and Jaworowska 1992).
For instance, we observed deficits in intellectual functioning among children exposed to elevated Mn in drinking water in Bangladesh (Wasserman et al. 2006), and in Korea children with higher blood Mn (BMn) received lower intelligence test scores (Kim et al. 2009).
