@article{daf72a277c9d4337b3a5b48b9f148e0a,
title = "A brief history of INA and ICOH SCNP: International Neurotoxicology Association and International Congress on Occupational Health Scientific Committee on Neurotoxicology and Psychophysiology",
abstract = "Two international scientific societies dedicated to research in neurotoxicology and neurobehavioral toxicology are the International Neurotoxicology Association (INA) and the International Congress on Occupational Health International Scientific Committee on Neurotoxicology and Psychophysiology (ICOH SCNP). From June 5-10, 2011 these two societies held a joint conference in Xi'an China entitled the Xi'an International Neurotoxicology Conference, Neurotoxicity and Neurodegeneration: Local Effect and Global Impact. At the conference two featured talks presented a brief history of the two societies. This article is a synthesis and expansion of those two presentations. The history of INA and ICOH SCNP is described in relation to the antecedent events leading to the formation of the two societies, their parallel developments, the nature of the societies and their scientific conferences, and a brief description of some of their accomplishments. Together, the historical development of these two societies is an important component of the development of the scientific discipline of neurotoxicology.",
keywords = "Behavioral neurotoxicology, Behavioral toxicology, ICOH, ICOH SCNP, INA, Neurotoxicology",
author = "Anger, {W. Kent} and Boyes, {William K.}",
note = "Funding Information: These two meetings, the early research by Hanninen and others, and work by Beard and Wertheim (1968) in the US who found adverse effects of carbon monoxide at very low levels, stimulated the funding that created a new field. A great deal of grant funding was directed to universities and in the US major research units were funded at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Neurotoxicology Division led by Larry Reiter and later Hugh Tilson), US National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) (Laboratory of Behavioral and Neurological Toxicology led by Cliff Mitchell and Hugh Tilson), National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) (Division of Neurotoxicology led by Bill Slikker and later Merle Paule), and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (Neurobehavioral Research Section in NIOSH led by Charlie Xintaras and Barry Johnson (who later led the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)). These meetings and the early research findings also led to increased funding of neurotoxicology research units at the European agencies that were already hard at work studying neurotoxic endpoints, most notably laboratories led by Helena Hanninen and Anna Maria Seppalainen at the Finnish Institute for Occupational Health (FIOH), Renato Gilioli and Maria Cassitto at the University of Milan, Philippe Grandjean at the University of Denmark, Gerhard Winnecke at the University of Dusseldorf, and Francesco Gamberale at the Research Department of the Swedish National Board of Occupational Safety and Health. ",
year = "2012",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.neuro.2012.03.012",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "631--640",
journal = "NeuroToxicology",
issn = "0161-813X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "4",
}