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neurotoxic

Able to produce chemically an adverse effect on the nervous system: such effects may be subdivided into two types.

  1. Central nervous system effects (including transient effects on mood or performance and pre-senile dementia such as Alzheimer's disease).
  2. Peripheral nervous system effects (such as the inhibitory effects of organophosphorus compounds on synaptic transmission).
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