The fragments of plastic themselves are pretty tiny, at less than 200 nanometers, or about 400 times smaller than the width of a human hair. "That's roughly the size of two COVID viruses side by ...

Traumatic brain injuries once considered permanent can now be treated with non-invasive techniques such as light and sound therapy to help re-align brain signals. It's all thanks to discovering ...

Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery. You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.

Your brain may have a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics, study finds By Katie Dangerfield Global News Posted February 6, 2025 5:06 pm 4 min read ...

The microplastics detected in brain tissues in the Nature Medicine study were shaped like sharp plastic shards or flakes, 200 nanometres or less in size, and most often polyethylene, the most ...

Rising plastic levels and potential health risks The research team analysed brain tissue samples from 2016 and 2024, revealing a sharp rise in plastic levels over just eight years. To explore a ...

Plastic is everywhere, including in our brains. According to a preprint in the National Library of Medicine, samples from human brains collected in 2024 contain 50% more plastic than samples ...

And they are everywhere, she said — in our food, drinking water and oceans. She said that while the discovery of plastic in the brain is certainly shocking, it is unfortunately not surprising.

Plastic Spoon's Worth Of Plastic Inside Your Brain, Warn Researchers Research revealed that human brains contain approximately a spoon's worth of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs), with levels ...