Poverty Affects Brain Connectivity in Children (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Poverty is associated with many bad things for children, and now researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have identified one more: impaired brain function. They found that key structures in the brain work differently in kids raised in poverty than in those from more affluent situations.

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