Brain Images Showing Affect of Air Pollution on 12 Year Olds (IMAGE)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Brain Images Showing Affect of Air Pollution on 12 Year Olds

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These brain images of 12-year-old children show regions of the brain in red, orange and yellow that are most affected by traffic related air pollution (TRAP). Those regions denote a reduction in cortical thickness linked to elemental carbon attributed to traffic. Of these images, the darker the color, the stronger the effect. The study appears in PLOS One.

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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