Researchers have long warned about the harmful effects of lead in paint, pipes and other products. But another once-widespread source − leaded gasoline − might have harmed the mental health of a ...

Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists ...

Researchers found that lead-associated mental health and personality differences were most pronounced for those born between 1966 and 1986. Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in ...

Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July. That's according to the U.N. Environment ...

NBC News reported that the study was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in December. It used various metrics to estimate child blood-lead levels between 1940 and 2015 and ...

Psychiatric disorders in more than 150 million people over the past 75 years may have resulted from childhood exposure to leaded gas, new research suggests. No level of lead exposure is safe for ...

A vehicle is fueled up at a Sam's Club in Gulfport, Miss., in February 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (CN) — The one in five Americans suffering from mental illness have a new key culprit to blame: ...

(WXYZ) — A new study revealed that leaded gasoline exposure may have contributed to millions of mental health cases in the U.S. Researchers, whose findings were ...

Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates. Lead was banned from automobile fuel in ...