Poverty is really an evil thing after all. Some of those who may have been stricken with extreme poverty may live with it after all. Here in the Philippines, there are a lot of the extremely poor people. If poverty would be rid from the face of the planet, we would probably live a better life.
According to studies, poverty has a direct connection to brain damage. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory. This means that by living a childhood life of poverty, effects may go on until adulthood because of the damage it has done in the brain.
The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life. Middle- to high-class kids always get the best in nurture, nutrition and resources while those in the lower-class get a bad diet and no access to resources. Due to their poverty too, key mental abilities won't go out starting from kindergarten up to adulthood.
Called the achievement gap, this is the phenomenon of the disproportionately low academic performance of poor children and teenagers living in poverty.
Poor kids are stressed even at their youngness. Scientists also found that hormones produced in response to stress literally wear down the brains (of animals).
So how do we deal with this one?
"Policy changes that affect environments that might affect cognitive development and brain change — that's the ultimate future of the field," Kim Noble, a University of Pennsylvania psychobiologist said.
According to studies, poverty has a direct connection to brain damage. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory. This means that by living a childhood life of poverty, effects may go on until adulthood because of the damage it has done in the brain.
The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life. Middle- to high-class kids always get the best in nurture, nutrition and resources while those in the lower-class get a bad diet and no access to resources. Due to their poverty too, key mental abilities won't go out starting from kindergarten up to adulthood.
Called the achievement gap, this is the phenomenon of the disproportionately low academic performance of poor children and teenagers living in poverty.
Poor kids are stressed even at their youngness. Scientists also found that hormones produced in response to stress literally wear down the brains (of animals).
So how do we deal with this one?
"Policy changes that affect environments that might affect cognitive development and brain change — that's the ultimate future of the field," Kim Noble, a University of Pennsylvania psychobiologist said.
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