Volume 105 Supplement 2, March 1997

Experimental Approaches to Chemical Sensitivity

Table of Contents

Overview

Introduction and Overview

Howard Kipen and Nancy Fiedler

Chemical Sensitivity: The Scientific Literature

Nancy Fiedler and Howard Kipen

Clinical Perspectives

Profile of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity

Grace Ziem and James McTamney

Clinical Characteristics of Chemical Sensitivity: An Illustrative Case History of Asthma and MCS

Gerald H. Ross

Commentary: Laboratory Testing of the Patient with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Howard R. Kehrl

Theoretical Perspectives

Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance--An Emerging Theory of Disease?

Claudia S. Miller

Commentary: Evolving Concepts of Chemical Sensitivity

Robert C. MacPhail

Individual Differences in Neural Sensitization and the Role of Context in Illness from Low-level Environmental Chemical Exposures

Iris R. Bell, Gary E. Schwartz, Carol M. Baldwin, Elizabeth E. Hardin, Nancy G. Klimas, John P. Kline, Roberto Patarca, and Zhi-Ying Song

Potential Role of Stress and Sensitization in the Development and Expression of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Barbara A. Sorg and Balakrishna M. Prasad

Hypothesis for Induction and Propagation of Chemical Sensitivity Based on Biopsy Studies

William J. Meggs

Psychophysiological Hypotheses Regarding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome

Paul M. Lehrer

Commentary: Systematic Considerations in the Area of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Vernon A. Benignus

Experimental Methods

Experimental Strategies for Research on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Bernard Weiss

Cognitive and Psychomotor Performance Tests and Experiment Design in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Anthony Wetherell

A Behavior-Genetic Approach to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

David B. Newlin

Human Drug Discrimination and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Caffeine Exposure as an Experimental Model

Thomas Eissenberg and Roland R. Griffiths

Working Group Reports

Empirical Approaches for the Investigation of Toxicant-induced Loss of Tolerance

Claudia Miller, Nicholas Ashford, Richard Doty, Mary Lamielle, David Otto, Alice Rahill, and Lance Wallace

Pavlovian Conditioning and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Shepard Siegel and Richard Kreutzer

Psychoneuroimmunology

Nicholas Cohen, Howard Kehrl, Birgitta Berglund, Ann O'Leary, Gerald Ross, James Seltzer, and Clifford Weisel

Neurogenic Inflammation: With Additional Discussion of Central and Perceptual Integration of Nonneurogenic Inflammation

Rebecca Bascom, William J. Meggs, Mark Frampton, Kenneth Hudnell, Kaye Killburn, Gerd Kobal, Michelle Medinsky, and William Rea

Testing the Neural Sensitization and Kindling Hypothesis for Illness from Low Levels of Environmental Chemicals

Iris R. Bell, John Rossi III, Mary E. Gilbert, Gerd Kobal, Lisa A. Morrow, David B. Newlin, Barbara A. Sorg, and Ronald W. Wood

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