From Medscape: analysis of large U.S. and Danish datasets revealed to researchers
significant correlations between air pollution and bipolar disorder in both countries and between air pollution and depression, schizophrenia, and personality disorder in Denmark.
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The findings were published online August 20 in PLOS Biology.
Heritability explains the development of psychiatric disorders to a large extent, but "it's never 100%," and it is increasingly evident that environmental insults play an important role....
Air pollution is a complex mixture of small particulate matter, gases, metals, and organic contaminants generated by natural erosion of stones and human-made materials, exhaust of transport vehicles, industrial activity, and fires.
There's already evidence from human, animal, and in vitro studies that airborne pollutants can end up in the brain and are implicated in the etiology of neurologic and psychiatric disorders….
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