Poverty and children's brains do not mix
CU study: Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn
April 9, 2009
By Sheri Hallsh648@cornell.edu
Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, reports a new Cornell study.
The study, published online March 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is one of the first to look at cognitive responses to physiological stress in children who live in poverty.
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