Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 14:14 in Health & Medicine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, reports a new Cornell study.

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