Psychology Magazine

The Neuroscience of Poverty.

By Deric Bownds @DericBownds

This open source review article by Alla Katsnelson is sobering, and worth a read. The major foci in the brain that appear to show disparities in poor children are the hippocampus and frontal lobe. I pass on this graphic illustrating the decline in total brain gray matter (nerve cell) volume in young children of middle and low socioeconomic status individuals.

The neuroscience of poverty.


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