Adult rats that had been exposed before birth and during nursing to a mixture of plastic chemicals called phthalates found in a wide range of consumer products in human level doses have fewer brain cells and perform worse on an attention-switching task than rats not exposed to the plastic chemicals

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Adult rats that had been exposed before birth and during nursing to a mixture of plastic chemicals called phthalates found in a wide range of consumer products in human level doses have fewer brain cells and perform worse on an attention-switching task than rats not exposed to the plastic chemicals