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Hormones on EU brains
25 November 2014. Hormones are essential for brain development. But it seems that the discussions on industrial chemicals that affect our endocrine system have completely ignored the most important...
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Greenhouse pesticides
5 December 2014. Pesticides are meant to be toxic to various pests, including insects. As our nervous system is quite similar to insect brains in regard to its biochemistry, pesticides that control...
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Mottled fluoride debate
17 December 2014. A meta-analysis on IQ deficits in children exposed to elevated levels of fluoride in drinking water spurred much discussion in the US, mostly in regard to the safety of water...
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Manganese in water drains brains
7 January 2015. Manganese contamination of drinking water can stain the laundry and result in an unpleasant taste, although thought to be of doubtful health significance. As late as 2011, the World...
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Phthalate trouble
15 January 2015. A new cause of chemical brain drain has emerged: Phthalates. These substances are industrial chemicals produced in large amounts for use as additives to multiple kinds of plastics and...
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Dioxin as brain drainer
21 January 2015. The industrial chemicals known to interfere with brain development in children include the PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). But PCB is a mixture of compounds, and some of them...
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Brain drain going viral
6 February 2015. When a story gets propagated on the internet and reaches a very sizable population, it spreads like measles – the story goes viral. This is what happened to a recent report that...
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Air pollution harms brain development
4 March 2015. Air pollution from trucks harms children’s brain development, a new study from Barcelona, Spain shows. The researchers found that greater degrees of air pollution were associated with...
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Thyroid dysfunction causes brain drain
30 March 2015. Human brain development is critically dependent on the thyroid hormone. In the beginning of pregnancy, the fetus depends entirely on the mother’s hormone. Once the fetal thyroid begins...
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Alerting anesthetized decision-makers
27 April 2015. General anesthesia in small children may cause damage to brain development, authors of an article in JAMA fear. Similar concerns have previously been raised at this site, but the...
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Is organic food better for new brains?
13 February 2017. The answer may appear straightforward. Of course organic food is better. But there are some caveats as well. First, let us look at the research findings. They were recently summarized...
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Prioritizing brain drainers
28 February 2017. A U.S. regulatory agency – the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – took physicians and scientists by surprise late last year. The FDA warned that repeated or lengthy use of general...
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