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

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

Objective: Children exposed to severe, chronic stress are vulnerable to mental and physical
health problems across the lifespan. To explain how these problems develop, the …

Although theoretical work proposes that emotion regulation development exhibits a positive
growth trajectory across adolescence as prefrontal brain regions continue to mature …

Relatively little is known about neurobiological changes attributable to early-life stressors
(eg, orphanage rearing), even though they have been associated with a heightened risk for …

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 …

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 …

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