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Lead Exposure

2024-12-10 00:46:55.27891+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US population over the past 75 years

Assuming that published lead-psychopathology associations are causal and not purely correlational: We estimate that by 2015, the US population had gained 602-million General Psychopathology factor points because of exposure arising from leaded gasoline, reflecting a 0.13-standard-deviation increase in overall liability to mental illness in the population and an estimated 151 million excess mental disorders attributable to lead exposure. Investigation of specific disorder-domain symptoms identified a 0.64-standard-deviation increase in population-level Internalizing symptoms and a 0.42-standard-deviation increase in AD/HD symptoms. Population-level Neuroticism increased by 0.14 standard deviations and Conscientiousness decreased by 0.20 standard deviations. Lead-associated mental health and personality differences were most pronounced for cohorts born from 1966 through 1986 (Generation X).

https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14072

USA Today: Leaded gas created a mental health crisis for this generation

[ related topics: Children and growing up Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Health History Model Building ]

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#Comment Re: Lead Exposure made: 2024-12-10 02:03:06.321593+01 by: markd

Hey, that's me! And by the way, lead paint is delicious. I ate a fair amount of that off of furniture growing up.

#Comment Re: Lead Exposure made: 2024-12-14 13:10:42.61632+01 by: Definitely Not a Bot [edit history]

These stories always paint low level criminals as having been affected by lead, but I wonder how many psychopathic boomer CEOs have similarly been affected? Need more stories where that is the lede.

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