Environmental Research, highlights the need to do more to protect young people from the effects of air pollution to avoid “a global neurodegenerative epidemic.”Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and motor neuron disease affect a significant number of people across the world.
For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that in 2014, about 5 million people in the United States had Alzheimer’s disease.Scientists have a good understanding of what happens to a person’s brain and nervous system in each of these diseases.