Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline may be responsible for more than 150 million mental health disorders in Americans alive today. That’s the shocking takeaway from a recent study published in ...

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.

A history of lead in gasoline may be behind tens of millions of mental health conditions in the United States, according to new research. “We’ve shifted the curve in the population for mental ...

Researchers revealed that members of Generation X had historically-high levels of exposure to lead due to car exhausts with ...

due to the use of leaded gasoline. “We estimate that at least 151 million cases of diagnosable mental disorder that the population would have experienced over the last 75 years could be attributable ...

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 ...

(Leaded gas was phased out in United States by 1996.) They estimated US childhood blood–lead levels from 1940 to 2015 and assessed mental-health symptoms that have been linked to lead exposure.

As California works to phase out leaded fuel at its airports, the first three tarmacs in the state, all in the Bay Area, started offering 100-octane unleaded fuel last fall. Contra Costa County ...