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Today’s ADHD Blame Game: Pesticides

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New analysis suggests bug spray could be a trigger for ADHD. Based on insufficient data with major uncertainties, the pesticide theory is too weak to survive.

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A new-old theory about the cause of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is crawling across the nation: pesticides.

In the journal Environmental Health a group of American authors examined the relationship between a common pesticide, pyrethroid, and ADHD.

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