Translations of twelve Chinese studies on developmental fluoride neurotoxicity

The following are English translations of 12 reports dealing with neurological effects of fluoride that were originally published in Chinese research journals between 1990 and 2004. The translations were commissioned by and provided to Fluoride by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) of Canton, NY The first 11 translations were made by Julian Brooke, a young scholar who has studied and traveled in China. The translation of the 12th report was made by Bin Li, PhD, a professional Chinese-English translator. Summaries and Keywords appearing in brackets were written by the present editors. As can be seen in the references cited in these reports and others that have appeared in Fluoride, there are many other related papers in the Chinese scientific literature that might have been selected. Nevertheless, those included here are a representative cross section of topics in this area of fluoride research. Although relatively unknown among many researchers outside of China, these studies, which are now made widely available for the first time in English, are of great importance worldwide for a ftiller understanding of how fluoride can affect neurological development, function, and performance.