Air pollution linked to learning problems and depression

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*Air pollution stunts cognition.

<http://the-scientist.com/2011/07/06/air-pollution-stunts-cognition/>*

New data in mice suggests that the air-borne particulates we breathe in

throughout our lives may also slow learning and cause depression,

according to a study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry

*A cloud over our lives: Air pollution linked to learning problems and

depression.

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2011955/A-cloud-lives-Air-pollution-l\

inked-learning-problems-depression.html>*

Scientists believe long-term exposure to smog can also make people lose

their memory and become more depressed - as it physically alters the

brain. *

Air pollution impairs cognition, provokes depressive-like behaviors and

alters hippocampal cytokine expression and morphology*

L K Fonken et al

Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication 5 July 2011; doi:

10.1038/mp.2011.76

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/mp201176a.html

Residential Proximity to Freeways and *Autism* in the CHARGE Study.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21156395>

Volk HE, Hertz-Picciotto I, Delwiche L, Lurmann F, McConnell R.

Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Jun;119(6):873-7.

*Autism* spectrum disorders in relation to distribution of hazardous air

pollutants in the san francisco bay area.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16966102>

*Windham* GC, Zhang L, Gunier R, Croen LA, Grether JK.

Environ Health Perspect. 2006 Sep;114(9):1438-44.

*Autism* spectrum disorders in relation to distribution of hazardous air

pollutants in the san francisco bay area.

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16966102>

*Windham* GC, Zhang L, Gunier R, Croen LA, Grether JK.

Environ Health Perspect. 2006 Sep;114(9):1438-44.