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 is a well known neurotoxin. It’s also a common pollutant. New research estimates the toll that those two truths, combined, have had on Americans’ mental health. Between 1940 and 2015, childhood ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...