The Neural Exposome Determinants of Health Across the Lifespan
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 141
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of the exposome—the totality of environmental, social, and behavioral exposures across the lifespan—has emerged as a transformative framework in public health research. Increasingly, attention has turned toward the neural exposome, which focuses on how cumulative exposures shape brain structure, function, and health from early development through aging. Environmental toxicants, psychosocial stressors, occupational hazards, built environments, lifestyle factors, and socioeconomic conditions interact dynamically with biological processes to influence neurological, cognitive, and mental health outcomes.
This Special Issue will aim to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on the neural exposome by integrating perspectives from environmental health, neuroscience, chemistry, rehabilitation sciences, epidemiology, and public health. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and methodological papers that examine environmental exposures and their mechanistic, behavioral, and clinical implications for overall or brain health. Topics of interest include—but are not limited to—chemical neurotoxicants, air and water pollution, occupational and social exposures, neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative outcomes, biomarkers of exposure and effect, and exposure-informed interventions and policies. By bringing together diverse methodological approaches and populations across the lifespan, this Special Issue seeks to deepen understanding of environmental determinants of brain health and inform prevention, intervention, and policy strategies aimed at reducing neurological health disparities.
Dr. Emre Umucu
Dr. Amol Kulkarni
Dr. Shashwati Geed
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neural exposome
- brain health
- environmental neurotoxicants
- lifespan neuroscience
- social determinants of health
- occupational exposure
- neurodevelopment
- neurodegeneration
- neuroinflammation
- trauma
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