Iris R. Bell,1 John Rossi III,2 Mary E. Gilbert,3 Gerd Kobal,4 Lisa A. Morrow,5 David B. Newlin,6 Barbara A. Sorg,7 and Ronald W. Wood8
1 Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, and the Tucson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
2 Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (Toxicology), Tri-Service Toxicology Consortium, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
3 1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
4 1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany
5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6 National Institute of Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
7 Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
8 Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University, New York, New York
Key words: sensitization, kindling, mesolimbic, human, animal, time factors, low-level exposures, psychophysiology
This paper is based on a work group discussion at the Conference on Experimental Approaches to Chemical Sensitivity held 20-22 September 1995 in Princeton, New Jersey. Manuscript received at EHP 6 March 1996; manuscript accepted 6 December 1996.
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Abbreviations used: CNS, central nervous system; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; EEG, electroencephalography; EMG, electromyography; ERP, event-related potential; MCS, multiple chemical sensitivity; MMPI, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; POMS, Profile of Mood States scale; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder; SCID, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM; SCL-90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 (revised); TDS, time-dependent sensitization; TLE, temporal lobe epilepsy.
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