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Formaldehyde and Cognition

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Formaldehyde is widely present from the universe to a single cell. It also comes from our daily life, including food, water, clothing and building materials. As a main material or by-product from industrial and commercial production, formaldehyde is the most common aldehyde in the environment. The most common formaldehyde exposure is from contaminated air. In general, human beings spend around 90% of their time indoors, where there are complex mixtures of pollutants, including formaldehyde. Indoor formaldehyde exposures can be extremely dangerous, such as residential exposing to renovated homes, offices and public shopping centres. Another main method of formaldehyde immersion is through occupational exposure, for instance, in some factories, hospitals and laboratories, where formaldehyde concentrations are much higher and the people working there are highly vulnerable. Although the toxicity of formaldehyde has been extensively studied and its detections have been well developed, the exposure of formaldehyde is still serious all over the world, especially the countries that are producing and consuming huge amounts of construction materials which contain and emit aldehydes. People are exposed to formaldehyde through breathing and gastric intestinal digestion or by skin contact. The exposure to formaldehyde can cause respiratory irritation, asthma, tumours and multiple neuropsychological abnormalities or even cause death. Therefore, it is of great importance to control possible sources of formaldehyde and set up international standards to avoid formaldehyde insult.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank NCBI for the data on formaldehyde we cited from the website: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. This project was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Programme of China (2016YFC1306300), the National Basic Research Programme of China (973 Programme) (2012CB911004), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Project (Z161100000217141; Z161100000216137), the Natural Scientific Foundation of China (NSFC 31270868), Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS-20140909 and the Queensland-Chinese Academy of Sciences Biotechnology Fund (GJHZ201302). This project was also supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 81274093), Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (ZR2015HL128) and Health Department of Shandong Province (2014WS0478).

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  3. State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Rongqiao He

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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Qu, M., Lu, J., He, R. (2017). Formaldehyde from Environment. In: Formaldehyde and Cognition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1177-5_1

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