by Angela Nicoletti, Florida International University Credit: Florida International University Guilarte and Timothy Allen, director of the Neurocircuitry & Cognition Lab, are working together to investigate the effectiveness of the flavonoid 7,8-dihydroxyflavone in improving learning after lead exposure. Tomás R. Guilarte has been exchanging emails with a mother whose child was exposed to lead. She’s...
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Childhood lead exposure may adversely affect adults’ personalities
by University of Texas at Austin Credit: CC0 Public Domain Lead exposure in childhood may lead to less mature and less healthy personalities in adulthood, according to a new study lead by psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sampled more than 1.5 million...