Somatosensory Psychophysical Losses in Inhabitants of Riverside Communities of the Tapajós River Basin, Amazon, Brazil: Exposure to Methylmercury Is Possibly Involved
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The somatosensory functions of inhabitants from two communities of the Tapajós river basin, Barreiras and São Luiz do Tapajós, and one community of the Tocantins river basin, Furo do Maracujá, were studied with psychophysical methods. Barreiras and São Luiz do Tapajós were mercury-exposed due the proximity of gold-mining areas. The map was obtained from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia Estatística–IBGE. Modified from: ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/mapas_tematicos/fisico/unidades_federacao/pa_fisico.pdf