Can Common Household Chemicals Cause Brain Damage?
By Better Health Research Team • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Health E-Hint
Long-term exposure to the chemicals in products such as paints and dry cleaning agents may cause your brain to short-circuit. According to a team of Dutch researchers, solvents in a variety of products may worsen a condition called chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy (CSE).
The study found that people with CSE experience problems with memory, attention and psychomotor function long after exposure to the solvents has ceased. CSE patients exposed to solvents also had reduced density in dopamine receptors. This deficiency is believed to play a role in psychomotor speed predictive of impaired psychomotor speed and attention.
The results indicate that certain frontal brain circuits are affected in CSE patients—and in workers who’ve been exposed to solvents but don’t have any CSE symptoms.
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