Neurotoxins mercury compounds

Not every organic mercury compound is as toxic as dimethyl-and methylmercury. Both compounds are especially powerful neurotoxins. And the widespread distribution of methylmercury, passing as it does into the food chain after release into the environment by industry, makes it a pervasive danger to entire populations of people, including to the unborn. 

Various organomercury compounds (e.g. ethylmercuric chloride, methyl mercury, dimethyl mercury), found as environmental contaminants or used as fungicides, are irreversible neurotoxins. Damage cell bodies of neurones in the dorsal root ganglia and brain. See also mercury. 

Neurotoxins. Affect the nervous system, causing narcosis, behavioral change, loss of motor coordination. Examples mercury, carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, benzene, organometal compounds (84). 

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