Leaded gas wasn’t fully banned until 1996. So, anyone born before then could be at risk of harmful effects. For the study, the researchers looked at data on lead levels in kids, how leaded ...

Related: Leaded gas may have lowered the IQ of 170 million US adults] Beyond these markers of clinical mental disorders, the new analysis further determined that early life lead exposure has ...

Leaded gas was banned in the United States in 1996, but the study said years of exposure during development made them particularly vulnerable. Lead gas peaked from the mid-1960s through the mid ...

Aaron Reuben, PhD However, the investigators emphasized that the study only establishes an association and not a causal relationship between leaded gas exposure and subsequent psychopathology.

Americans, especially those born between 1966 and 1986 (largely so-called generation X), have probably suffered from an additional 151 million mental health disorders that would not have occurred ...

Lead was originally added to gasoline to improve engine performance. Use of leaded gas increased after World War II until it proved damaging to catalytic converters, which became required in the ...

The concern over the use of lead in aviation gas is understandable and shared by ... Infrastructure is another limiting factor; leaded and unleaded aviation gasoline cannot be mixed in the same ...

Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of mental health in the U.S. population, making generations of Americans more depressed, anxious and inattentive or ...