Phoenix Technology News Beijing time July 22nd news, according to the Science Daily reports, 22% of the children in the United States live in poverty, the development of the brain, the situation Health and academic achievements have a long-term negative impact. The latest research published in the Journal of the journal Pediatrics in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July 20th provides more convincing evidence that living in poverty can have a harmful effect on the brain.
the latest research provides more convincing evidence that living in poverty can have a harmful effect on the brain.
Joan Ruby (Joan.L.luby), a child psychiatrist at the Saint Louis School of medicine at the University of Washington, wrote in a related editorial that "early childhood intervention for these children to form a good culture environment must now be a priority for our public health." In the rupee study of poor children, she and her colleagues identified changes in brain construction, which could lead to problems such as lifelong depression, learning difficulties and the limitations of coping with stress.
however, her research also shows that parents who focus on nurturing can offset some of the common negative effects of poor children on brain anatomy. These findings suggest that teaching skills to parents, especially those living below the poverty line, may bring lifelong benefits to children.
"our study shows that the effects of poverty on the developing brain, especially the hippocampus, are strongly influenced by the stress of parental cultivation and child experience," said rupee, a professor of child psychiatry Samuel and Ludwig, and director of the early emotional development program at the University of Washington.
the research team at the University of Wisconsin at Madison found that low income children have irregular brain development and lower standard test scores, which may explain up to 20% of the individual achievement gap caused by the lag of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
"in developing science and medicine, the causes and solutions of public health problems are rarely explained so clearly," said ruby. "It is even more rare to find a feasible and cost-effective solution to such problems."
based on this latest research and the harmful effects of poverty on the brain of children, and the knowledge of the benefits of early childhood cultivation, "we have gained a rare bequest to protect and support the most important legacy of the society, that is, the developing brain." The rupee wrote. (compiling / Yan Yan Liu Xing)