The intellectual development, mental and behavioural disorders in children from Belarus exposed in utero following the Chernobyl accident
Author: Igumnov, S / Drozdovitch, V
Reference: European Psychiatry, 15 (4), p.244-253, Jun 2000
doi: 10.1016/S0924-9338(00)00237-6
Keywords: education; emotional disorder; exposure; prenatal; social factors; specific learning ; thyroid dose
Abstract: The study examined psychological development in 250 children at the age of 6–7 and 10–12 years who had been exposed in the prenatal period at the time of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. These children were compared to a control group of 250 children of the same age from non- and slightly contaminated areas of Belarus. The examination included psychiatric examination and intellectual assessment as well as the estimation of thyroid exposure in utero. The mean value of thyroid doses from 131I 0.39 Gy was estimated for the prenatal exposed children….
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