Rich Man, Poor Man: Socioeconomic Adversity and Brain Development

Editor’s Note: Here’s a disturbing statistic that made headlines this past January: The richest 85 people in the world now hold as much wealth as the poorest half. Keeping in mind the goal of closing the ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, our author examines new research that ties family income level and other factors to brain development. While socioeconomic adversity may not solely determine a child’s success later in life, its significant role in helping children develop language, memory, and life skills can no longer be ignored.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Cerebrum

• Publication date

  2014-05-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Economics, Psychology

• Identifiers
  PMID 26000073PMCID 4436198
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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