Studies link lead to adult crime, brain damage


	Studies link lead to adult crime, brain damage

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5-30-2008 9:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7a3c6d1a-1265-4abf-a6da-4e52cd947549/7DD8D489-B590-4911-BD19-F94AF2363B8F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc"><P>Dietrich and colleagues signed up pregnant women living in
Cincinnati neighborhoods ridden with lead-contaminated housing
between 1979 and 1984. They tested the women and then their
children from birth and have been watching the children as they
grew up.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc"><P>Those with high lead levels before birth and during <SPAN id="lw_1211937855_6" class="yshortcuts">early
childhood</SPAN> had higher rates of arrest than those with lower lead
levels. About 55 percent of the now-grown children had at least
one arrest, 28 percent involving drugs and 27 percent serious
motor vehicle violations.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc">Dr. Kim Cecil of <SPAN id="lw_1211937855_9" class="yshortcuts">Cincinnati Children's
Hospital Medical Center</SPAN> did <SPAN id="lw_1211937855_10" class="yshortcuts">magnetic resonance imaging</SPAN>, or MRI
scans, of the brains of their volunteers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc"><P>They found more than 1 percent of total gray matter in the
brain was missing. "The most affected regions included frontal
gray matter, specifically the <SPAN id="lw_1211937855_11" class="yshortcuts">anterior cingulate cortex</SPAN>,"
Cecil's team wrote in a second study. This region is
responsible for mood regulation and decision-making.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/hl_nm/lead_crime_dc"><P>Men were far more affected than women.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DD8D489-B590-4911-BD19-F94AF2363B8F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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