12.02.2008 - EEGs show brain differences between poor and ric...
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Saved by 8 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-12-06
- Ryderbiz on 2009-01-09 - Tags brains , socioeconomic , status , science
- Joanvinallcox on 2008-12-31 - Tags Gladwell , Outliers , low-income , Downes
- Isaacmao on 2008-12-31 - Tags no_tag
- Shanta on 2008-12-15 - Tags uc_berkeley , mark_kishiyama , thomas_boyce , u_british_columbia , sylvia_bunge , poverty , neuroscience , learning , kids , research , linkingthinking , engaging , delicious_import
- Marcbe on 2008-12-10 - Tags PLE , talk , brain , differences
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Boyce, a pediatrician and developmental psychobiologist, heads a joint UC Berkeley/UBC research program called WINKS - Wellness in Kids - that looks at how the disadvantages of growing up in low socioeconomic circumstances change children's basic neural development over the first several years of life
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"This is a wake-up call," Knight said. "It's not just that these kids are poor and more likely to have health problems, but they might actually not be getting full brain development from the stressful and relatively impoverished environment associated with low socioeconomic status: fewer books, less reading, fewer games, fewer visits to museums."
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