BRAIN IMGING OF THE EFFECTS OF HEXACHLOROPHENE

I advocate the updating of hexachlorophene toxicity research by using the most appropriate advanced brain imaging technology. It is the purpose of this blog to raise questions about hexachlorophene on those babies who lived. This needs to be done with an open mind. We who were exposed to hexachlorophene , however, need to know more about its current effects on the white matter/ myelin of our central nervous system. My own library research is meant to raise necessary questions and suggest testable hypotheses. I do this in the hope that researchers whith more specific expertise become interested -- and active-- in reviving dormant hexachlophene research.

In light of that proposition, I invite comments by anyone on the usefullness and availability of a brain imaging technology for the effects of mitochondrial neurotoxins like hexachlorophene on myelin. It seems to me that diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for white matter in specific brain regions ( e.g. cerebellum, hippocampus, etc.) is both diagnostic of hexachlorophene's current effects and of the potential use in testing the effectiveness of currently available therapeutic medications.

Again, I hope my research raises both interest and comments. Hexachlorophene has become the forgotten neurotoxin dispite its well researched lasting effects.