{"id":227506,"date":"2025-12-20T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/exposure-to-common-air-pollutants-alters-adolescent-brain-development-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:24:15","slug":"exposure-to-common-air-pollutants-alters-adolescent-brain-development-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/exposure-to-common-air-pollutants-alters-adolescent-brain-development-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to common air pollutants alters adolescent brain development, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exposure-to-common-air-pollutants-alters-adolescent-brain-development-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physician-scientists at Oregon Health &amp; Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child\u2019s developing brain.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0013935125025861?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=9ae4ff452d323416\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Environmental Research<\/i>, researchers in OHSU\u2019s Developmental Brain Imaging Lab found that air pollution is associated with structural changes in the adolescent brain, specifically in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-06-early-life-exposure-air-pollution-brain.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">frontal and temporal regions <\/a>\u2014the areas responsible for executive function, language, mood regulation and socioemotional processing.<\/p>\n<p>Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, to circulate in the environment. It has been exacerbated over the past two centuries by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-09-qa-experts-discuss-ongoing-atmospheric.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">industrialization<\/a>, vehicle emissions, and, more recently, wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician-scientists at Oregon Health &amp; Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child\u2019s developing brain. In a recent study published in the journal Environmental Research, researchers in OHSU\u2019s Developmental Brain Imaging Lab found that air pollution is associated with structural changes in the adolescent brain, specifically in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}