One in five American children grows up in poverty. Childhood poverty has far-reaching
adverse impacts on cognitive, social and emotional development. Altered development of …

Childhood poverty has pervasive negative physical and psychological health sequelae in
adulthood. Exposure to chronic stressors may be one underlying mechanism for childhood …

Background: There is accumulating evidence on the negative impacts of childhood poverty
on physical and mental health. Previous work has suggested hyperactive neural response to …

While child poverty is a significant risk factor for poor mental health, the developmental
pathways involved with these associations are poorly understood. To advance knowledge …

Childhood poverty negatively impacts physical and mental health in adulthood. Altered brain
development in response to social and environmental factors associated with poverty likely …

Investigating the developmental sequelae of early life stress has provided researchers the
opportunity to examine adaptive responses to extreme environments. A large body of work …

Children growing up in poverty are vulnerable to negative changes in the developing brain;
however, these outcomes vary widely. We tested the hypothesis that receipt of supportive …

There is robust evidence that early poverty is associated with poor developmental outcomes,
including impaired emotion regulation and depression. However, the specific mechanisms …

Convergent research suggests that childhood poverty is associated with perturbation in the
stress response system. This might extend to aberrations in the connectivity of large-scale …

Childhood poverty is a pervasive problem that can alter mental health outcomes. Children
from impoverished circumstances are more likely than their middle-income counterparts to …