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.....backed by other research works, is chiefly grounded in Luby and coworkers' 2013 research project titled "The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development: The Mediating Effect of Caregiving and Stressful Life Events". It was obtained from EBSCOhost's database via a search activity, utilizing the expression "poverty and the brain".Poverty during the early childhood stage of life has an adverse effect on the development of the individual's brain, as indicated by school-goers' MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans (Lipina & Colombo, 2009; Lende, 2012). That environmental stimuli serve to enhance the production of hippocampal cells within lab animals in comparison to animals subject to relatively rare stimuli is an established fact ("Poverty, neglect in childhood...", 2013). This research work aimed at ascertaining whether or not the early childhood income-needs ratio influences school age kids' brain development and at examining the mediating factors of the abovementioned influence.
For analyzing the impacts destitution had on brain development in the childhood phase and for informing the mediators of the aforementioned impacts, the researchers scrutinized poverty's links with the volume of total cortical gray and white matter, in addition to that of the amygdala and hippocampus among kids aged between six and twelve years, longitudinally followed...
Drawing on animal subjects' neurobiological data and human beings' behavioral information, the authors put forward their theory of an extant impact of penury on the above brain volume results. Further, they postulated that important variables linked to poverty and established as having adverse influences on kids' development outcomes (e.g., traumatic life events, caregiver support, and caregiver education) were mediating factors in the relationship between brain volume and poverty.
As regards the research methodology adopted, researchers gathered information from a potential longitudinal research of preschoolers' emotional growth (these kids later went on to take part in neuroimaging tests). The analysis aimed at determining how brain development was impacted by destitution. Research subjects were evaluated yearly for a period of 3 to 6 years before an MRI scan of their brain was conducted for assessing their developmental aspects (behavioral, psychosocial, and so forth). The authors performed their analyses in one of Washington University medical school's academic research units (Luby et al., 2013).
Research findings revealed a relationship between poverty and decreased cortical gray, white matter, amygdala and hippocampus volume. But parental/caregiver apathy or support proved…
55). In other words, stress can create a life-long physiological change in and impairment of brain and body functioning. Such recent findings suggest that victims of stress may in fact suffer from a neurological disorder rather than just from a character flaw, mental weakness, or bad luck. Chronic stress can impact individual perception and thinking in significant ways. Research in cognitive neuropsychology has been particularly helpful in identifying some of
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