Cyclical Alterations In Neurocognitive Performance And Mood Over Two Years In Relation To Pesticide Spray Seasons Among Adolescent And Young Adult Participants Of The Espina Study.

Espina 研究的青少年和年轻人参与者两年内与农药喷洒季节相关的神经认知表现和情绪的周期性变化。

• 批准号: 10624787
• 负责人: Raeanne Cristine Moore
• 金额: $ 59.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10624787
• 关键词: 2019-nCoV; Acetylcholinesterase; Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent and Young Adult; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; Agriculture; Agrochemicals; Americas; Anxiety; Assessment tool; Attention; Biological Markers; Blood; Brain; COVID-19; California; Carbamates; Cellular Phone; Child; Cognition; Cognitive; Complex; County; Development Plans; Disease; Economics; Ecuador; Ecuadorian; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollutants; Epidemiology; Exposure to; Flowers; Funding; Future; Health; Health Technology; Immunoglobulin G; Impulsivity; Industry; Insecticides; Knowledge; Link; Measures; Memory; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Moods; Natural experiment; Neurocognitive; Neurodevelopmental Disability; Nutritional; Organophosphates; Outcome; Participant; Performance; Persons; Pesticides; Population; Process; Prospective, cohort study; Psyche structure; Public Health; Reaction Time; Recurrence; Research; Risk Assessment; Sampling; Schedule; Seasons; Short-Term Memory; Standardization; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; Symptoms; System; Testing; Toxicology; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Youth; aged; agricultural community; agricultural pesticide; brain health; cholinergic; cognitive change; cognitive performance; cognitive testing; cohort; community based participatory research; depressive symptoms; design; disability; externalizing behavior; follow-up; girls; health assessment; human data; improved; individual variation; mHealth; mood regulation; neurobehavior; neurobehavioral; neurotoxic; novel; pesticide exposure; processing speed; prospective; psychosocial; psychosocial stressors; pyrethroid; sex; smartphone based assessment; stressor; toxic organophosphate insecticide exposure; urinary; young adult

Today, 20% of adolescents and 26% of young adults have a diagnosable internalizing (e.g. anxiety, depression) or externalizing problem (e.g. impulsivity, aggression, conduct disorders). Neurodevelopmental disabilities and mental health disorders in adolescents and young adults have increased over the last two decades worldwide, and environmental contaminants may explain a part of this increase. The most used insecticides worldwide include organophosphates (OPs: inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE)), pyrethroids and neonicotinoids. Toxicological and epidemiological evidence links OP exposure with altered neurocognitive performance. Additionally, a small number of studies have described associations with internalizing symptoms and some externalizing behaviors (i.e. low inhibitory control). It is plausible neonicotinoids may also affect brain processes as they share some toxicological mechanisms like OPs and emerging findings indicate pyrethroids may affect brain processes and neurobehavior. Further, emerging studies suggest that pesticides may transiently affect cognitive performance and mood. Assessing transient health outcomes is complex, which has led to limited knowledge on this field. We propose a renewal of our 2016 study of adolescents and young adults (ages 18-23 years in 2022, n≈554) and builds on the planned 2022 follow-up exam of the NIH-funded Study of Secondary Pesticide Exposures among Children and Adolescents (ESPINA). The proposed study incorporates a novel mobile health assessment tool to evaluate the real-world neurotoxic effects of pesticides. ESPINA is a study established in 2008 of participants residing in Pedro Moncayo, Ecuador, a county with one of the highest concentrations of flower plantations in the Americas. Leveraging our smartphone-based ecological momentary cognitive testing (EMCT) platform, we will assess whether recurring and seasonal pesticide exposures in adolescence and young adulthood affect cognition and mental health. Using a burst sampling design 5 times/year for 2 years during high- and low-pesticide spray seasons, we will test the hypotheses: 1) pesticide spray seasons are associated with cyclical alterations in internalizing symptoms, externalizing behaviors, and cognitive performance assessed using EMCT; 2) pesticide exposures (AChE inhibition and OP and pyrethroid urinary pesticide metabolites) assessed during 5 agricultural periods are related to elevated depressive and externalizing symptoms, and decreased cognitive performance assessed using EMCT; 3) Urinary pesticide metabolites (OP, neonicotinoids, pyrethroids) are associated with increased mental health symptoms from 2016 to 2022 when all participants were adolescents, and whether age, sex and COVID-19-related factors (e.g., exposure; psychosocial stressors) modify the associations between environmental exposures and mental health. Identifying cognitive and mental health sequelae related to agricultural pesticide spray seasons on people living in agricultural settings will advance this understudied field of research and has significant implications for public health.

如今，20%的青少年和26%的年轻人有可诊断的内化（如焦虑、抑郁）。