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The brain and the environment: warning, fragile!
Summary
This commentary discusses the neurotoxic risks posed by environmental contaminants including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants such as microplastics, highlighting the brain's particular vulnerability due to its high lipid content and long lifespan of neurons. The authors call for stronger precautionary regulation of neuroactive environmental chemicals given the irreversible nature of neurological damage.
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