Climate Disasters Hit the Brain Before Babies Are Even Born, Study Suggests

When Superstom Sandy created a bline for New York City in October 2002, it was flooded in the suburbs of Manhattan in the suburbs, gone 2 million people Without electricity and heat and harmful Several thousand Home The storm followed a sweltering summer in New York City, including a procession of heat wave Nearly 100 degreesThe

For those who were pregnant at that time, it was not just uncomfortable to endure this extreme situation – it had made a permanent impression on their children’s brains. This is according to a new study published in the Peer-Verified Journal PLOS One on Wednesday. Using the MRI scan, researchers at Queens College, City University in New York, found that children who lived through Sandy had a distinct difference between the brain that could prevent their sensitive development. Researchers have discovered that in addition to the tropical storm, people were even more dramatic when they were exposed to extreme heat during their pregnancy.

“This is not just a climate stressor or a isolated event, but also a combination of everything,” Donato Dainis, the main author of the study of neuropicology at the Kuni Graduate Center and the doctoral student. The first type of study of Dingenis is the first to test the joint effects of natural disasters and extreme heat. Scientists dubbed the summer a few years ago “Season of danger” Since it is a time of risk of collision with heat, hurricane, fire and toxic smoke. And the summer temperatures tend to climb New heightThe

The study was analyzed in a group of 34 children aged about 84, whose mothers were pregnant during superstam Sandy – some of whom were pregnant that made Sandy Landfall and some of whom came to 95 degrees Fahrenheit or higher during pregnancy. Although the researchers did not see that solo heat had a lot of impact, life through the superstom Sandy increased the volume of basal gangleia, a part of the brain that related to the control of emotions.

Although this larger size may be compensated for pressure in response to pressure, changes in basal ganglia are associated with behavioral challenges for children as Frustration And AutismDijenis Dr.

“What we see is a vigorous proof that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is probably a nervous issue, including the consequences of our planet inheritance,” said Duke Sheren, director of the Kuni Graduate Center, in a news release. Global Warming makes the superstom Sandy more harmful Ocean And the higher sea temperature which may contain Up up the rainfall upThe

Yoko Numura, a co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at Queens College, said that “very, very sensitive” to develop the preceding time of birth because the body of the fetus is so severe. According to the survey, the human brain grows the most rapidly in the womb, reaching more than one third of its full adult amount before birth, survey. Numura said, “An additional pressure at that time, even though small,” can have a great impact. “

However, that additional sensitive duration also presents a window of the opportunity. “Development science, including science in this study, is exciting because it doesn’t just tell us What We can protect children from the impact of climate change, but it tells us that too When “We can take steps to protect the children,” Lindse Bergart, chief science officer at the center of Harvard University, said in an email, “we can take the biggest difference,” said.

Although there are many evidence that prenatal stress can usually affect the development of the infant brain, according to Denzenius, there is a special lack of research on climate -related pressure. “This is still a field that is likely to grow explosive,” Georgian McCon’s Mercer University School of Medicine Professor Jennifer Berkin says, who is studying the effects of last year’s Hurricane Helin on maternal health.

Barkin said that the study of DiGenis provides Concrete evidence of how climate-filled events can affect the brain. “Sometimes people spend a very difficult time with mental health, because it’s not that you can take the X-ray and see a broken bone.” However, the difference between the brain volume based on environmental pressure is easier to understand, he said.

Barkin, who Develop an index To measure maternal health after delivery, people say that people and their mental health have begun to pay more attention – not just to provide a healthy child, but in the long run. “We tend to focus on the outcome of the child, which is important, but the mother must be healthy to keep the child healthy,” she said. “Because during the mother’s fight, the family is about to fight.”

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