Cognitive Effects of Air Pollution Exposures and Potential Mechanistic Underpinnings

This review sought to address the potential for air pollutants to impair cognition and mechanisms by which that might occur.Air pollution has been associated with deficits in cognitive functions across a wide range of epidemiological studies, both with developmental and adult exposures. Studies in animal models are significantly more limited in number, with somewhat inconsistent findings to date for measures of learning, but show more consistent...