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 ...

But another once-widespread source − leaded gasoline − might have harmed the mental health of a generation. Gen X bears an extra burden of conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and ...

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 ...

Between the early 1920s and 1980s, much of the gasoline used in the U.S. was leaded. Though usage peaked in the 1970s, it wasn’t banned as a passenger car fuel additive in the U.S. until 1996 ...

A new study says that exhaust from gasoline containing lead may have contributed to ADHD, anxiety, and other mental health disorders in a large segment of the population Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg ...