ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2017
Cognitive Effects of Air Pollution Exposures and Potential Mechanistic Underpinnings.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution with clinically diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of HEPA filtration air purifiers on cognitive function from a secondary outcome analysis of a pragmatic randomized crossover trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Portable HEPA Filter Air Cleaner Use during Pregnancy and Children's Cognitive Performance at Four Years of Age: The UGAAR Randomized Controlled Trial.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Trial
- Outdoor Air Pollution, Perivascular Space Morphology, and Cognition in Preadolescence.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Less air pollution previously related to clean air and climate policies is linked to improved cognitive scores over time in NYC children.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- From Air to Brain: Environmental Nanoparticles as Modifiable Risk Factors for Neurodevelopmental, Neurodegenerative, and Mental Disorders.ACS omega · 2026Review
- Dynamics of neutrophilia at the neurovascular unit arising from repeated pulmonary inflammation.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- Social determinants impact both viral infections and brain development.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- Sources of outdoor air pollution exposure and child brain network development across the United States.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Dynamics of Neutrophilia at the Neurovascular Unit Arising from Repeated Pulmonary Inflammation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Trajectories and social determinants of child cognitive development: a prospective cohort study from infancy through middle childhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2025Article
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- Synergistic air pollution exposure elevates depression risk: A cohort study.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2025Article
- Male-biased vulnerability of mouse brain tryptophan/kynurenine and glutamate systems to adolescent exposures to concentrated ambient ultrafine particle air pollution.Neurotoxicology · 2024Article
- Air pollution from biomass burning disrupts early adolescent cortical microarchitecture development.Environment international · 2024Article
- Nitrooxidative Stress and Neuroinflammation Caused by Air Pollutants Are Associated with the Biological Markers of Neurodegenerative Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Air pollution and neurological diseases, current state highlights.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Traffic-related air pollution and dementia incidence in the Adult Changes in Thought Study.Environment international · 2024Article
- Particulate Matter in Human Elderly: Higher Susceptibility to Cognitive Decline and Age-Related Diseases.Biomolecules · 2023Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis review sought to address the potential for air pollutants to impair cognition and mechanisms by which that might occur. RECENT
findingsAir 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 impairments for short-term memory. Potential contributory mechanisms include oxidative stress/inflammation, altered levels of dopamine and/or glutamate, and changes in synaptic plasticity/structure. Epidemiological studies are consistent with adverse effects of air pollutants on cognition, but additional studies and better phenotypic characterization are needed for animal models, including more precise delineation of specific components of cognition that are affected, as well as definitions of critical exposure periods for such effects and the components of air pollution responsible. This would permit development of more circumscribed hypotheses as to potential behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms.
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