Objective: In this study, the authors tested the hypothesis that poverty experienced in early
childhood, as measured by income-to-needs ratio, has an impact on functional brain …

Importance The study provides novel data to inform the mechanisms by which poverty
negatively impacts childhood brain development. Objective To investigate whether the …

Importance Childhood poverty has been associated with increased internalizing and
externalizing problems in adolescence, a period of peak onset for psychiatric problems. The …

Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with higher rates of psychopathology as well as
hippocampus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex structure. However, little is known about how …

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 …

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

Clinical depression can occur in young children as early as age three. This very early onset
variant of depression shows the same clinical features with developmental adjustments as …

Experiencing poverty during childhood and adolescence may affect brain function. However,
income is dynamic, and studies have not addressed whether income change relates to brain …

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

Although hippocampal atrophy and altered functional brain responses to emotional stimuli
have been found in major depressive disorder (MDD), the relationship between the two is …