Cohort study demonstrates childhood chlordecone exposure impairs cognition and externalizing behaviors in 7-year-olds, highlighting critical neurodevelopmental windows.
These results suggests that cognitive abilities and externalizing behavior problems at school age are impaired by childhood, but not in utero, exposure to chlordecone, and that prenatal exposure is related to greater internalizing behavioral problems.
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