Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/05/18/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers/
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Does growing up poor harm brain development? (The Economist):
“Plenty of evidence suggests that growing up poor, living through these kinds of scrapes, has a detrimental impact on child development. Children from rich families tend to have better language and memory skills than those from poor families. More affluent children usually perform better in school, and are less likely to end up in jail. Growing up poor risks the development of a smaller cerebral cortex. But these are associations between poverty and development, not evidence that poverty causes these bad outcomes, says Kimberly Noble,…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2018/05/18/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers/
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Does growing up poor harm brain development? (The Economist):
“Plenty of evidence suggests that growing up poor, living through these kinds of scrapes, has a detrimental impact on child development. Children from rich families tend to have better language and memory skills than those from poor families. More affluent children usually perform better in school, and are less likely to end up in jail. Growing up poor risks the development of a smaller cerebral cortex. But these are associations between poverty and development, not evidence that poverty causes these bad outcomes, says Kimberly Noble,…
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