Welcome to the website for the James Madison University Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) Research Team. We study the life impacts of living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, also referred to as Environmental Illness, Chemical Injury, and Chemical Hypersensitivity. MCS is sometimes associated with Electromagnetic Sensitivity.

On this site you can:

Read online or download articles and papers from the JMU MCS Research Team

Read about the hypothesized causes of MCS

Access resource lists for MCS organizations, and MCS products.

Link to the webpage for Earthrive Books to read excerpts from and/or order the book

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A Survival Guide, 2nd Edition

Read state of the art environmental reports from various agencies and sources in links and resources.

Thank you to eveyone who participated in our CIL study. That study is now closed. We are currently writing up the results to be presented at the Southwest Conference on Disability October 1-3 in Albuquerque. We will be starting two new studies in the fall. Please consider participating when we post them. We plan to look at the types of treatment received by people with MCS by psychologists, including what types of labels are used to psychologize MCS. If you have visited a psychologist and have experiences to share or even a psychological report, we will be interested. We also plan to conduct an interview study regarding coping with MCS.

,