The prolonged stress a child experiences by being separated from their parents has lasting implications for their mental health and the generations after them.

How does growing up less fortunate impact the brain and how can educators help their students overcome this obstacle?

While differences in brain size based on socioeconomic status could be considered stigmatizing, the brain is quite adaptable and plastic.

This furrowed structure helps you execute every move you make.

Growing up in poverty can negatively impact developing brain regions like the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and, in turn, increases the risks of developing behavioral and learning problems.

Both stressful situations and a lack of resources can physically change the adult brain, which raises concerns of how living in poverty could negatively affect children, whose brains are still developing.

Test your students’ knowledge of brain states.

Learn about the prevalence of poverty in the US and its threats to childhood development.

Bryan Roth investigates different types of drugs to design safer and more effective medications for psychiatric diseases.

The brain works best with one job at a time, but daily life calls for multitasking, causing a “bottle neck” in the brain.