Pollution Can Cause Self-Regulatory Problems

Pollution causes a lot of problems. Some are obvious and some are not, but what most people do not know is that prenatal exposure to pollution can cause self-regulatory problems when a child gets older. In a study conducted Amy Margolis, assistant professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, and her colleagues from New York State Psychiatric Institute they concluded that prenatal exposure to air pollutions can cause self-regulatory and may be the underlying problem of mental disorders. They conducted the experiment by analyzing child tests and maternal blood samples from 462 mother-child pairs. They did a behavior check on the children at ages 3-5, 7, 9, and 11. From this they found