Is There a Correlation Between Lead and Crime?
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Apparently Mother Jones has found one. The found in states where the use of leaded gasoline declined, so did the crime rate. The found this on a neighborhood by neighborhood level. Scientists also found this out:
A study found that high exposure to lead during childhood was linked to a permanent loss of gray matter in the prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain associated with aggression control as well as what psychologists call “executive functions”: emotional regulation, impulse control, attention, verbal reasoning, and mental flexibility.
The entire study is over on MotherJones.com, find out why lead causes everyone to become violent psychopaths.
