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Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe New research provides more evidence to support the idea that where children grow up affects how they grow up. A nationwide study of kids brain development found that family poverty, low education rates and unemployment can affect children s performance on attention and memory tests, and even the size of their brains. Megan Herting, a senior author of the study and an assistant professor of preventive medicine at USC, said that the research could have broad implications. Neighborhoods seem to play a role in how these children are doing or how their brains may be developing,” she said. “That s important for thinking about how we create equity in neighborhoods, and also opportunity and resources for every child. ....
Disadvantaged neighborhoods, characterized by poverty, unemployment, and other socio-economic challenges, could pose particular environmental risks to the brain. ....
Neighborhood disadvantage may pose an environmental risk to brain development in children University of Southern California | May 6, 2021 Share this:
The research appears this week in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. These findings highlight the importance of neighborhood environments for child and adolescent brain development, the researchers said, and suggest that policies, programs and investments that help improve local neighborhood conditions and empower communities could support children’s neurodevelopment and long-term health. “This is the first large, national study of neurodevelopment to determine that the role of neighborhood disadvantage is similar across all regions of the country, and we found that what mattered most were the local differences in neighborhood disadvantage within each city, rather than how cities differ from each other overall,” said lead author Daniel Hackman, assistant professor at the USC Suzanne ....
E-Mail A new USC study suggests that certain neighborhoods - particularly those characterized by poverty and unemployment - may pose an environmental risk to the developing brains of children, impacting neurocognitive performance and even brain size. The research was published May 3 in the journal These findings highlight the importance of neighborhood environments for child and adolescent brain development, the researchers said, and suggest that policies, programs and investments that help improve local neighborhood conditions and empower communities could support children s neurodevelopment and long-term health. This is the first large, national study of neurodevelopment to determine that the role of neighborhood disadvantage is similar across all regions of the country, and we found that what mattered most were the local differences in neighborhood disadvantage within each city, rather than how cities differ from each other overall, said lead author Daniel ....
Disadvantaged neighborhoods may pose environmental risk to the developing brains of children A new USC study suggests that certain neighborhoods - particularly those characterized by poverty and unemployment - may pose an environmental risk to the developing brains of children, impacting neurocognitive performance and even brain size. The research was published May 3 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. These findings highlight the importance of neighborhood environments for child and adolescent brain development, the researchers said, and suggest that policies, programs and investments that help improve local neighborhood conditions and empower communities could support children s neurodevelopment and long-term health. This is the first large, national study of neurodevelopment to determine that the role of neighborhood disadvantage is similar across all regions of the country, and we found that what mattered most were the local differences in neighborhood disadva ....