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Diesel dangers
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Diesel inhalation could alter brain function
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An hour of sniffing diesel fumes in a busy street may not just give you headache, it can alter the way your brain functions, says new research which shows that inhaling exhaust induces a stress response in the brain’s activity.
The research, led by Paul Borm from Zuyd University in The Netherlands, has for the first time demonstrated that inhalation actually alters brain activity. In the study, 10 volunteers were made to spend one hour in a room filled with either clean air or exhaust from a diesel engine. They were wired up to an electroencephalograph (EEG), a machine that records the electrical signals of the brain, and their brain waves monitored during the exposure period and for one hour after they left the room.
The analyses after 30 minutes found that the diesel exhaust began to affect brain activity.
The EEG data suggested that the brain displayed a stress response, indicative of changed information processing in the brain cortex, which continued to increase even after the subjects had left the exposure chamber. — ANI
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