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 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 …

Early life stress has been associated with disrupted functional connectivity between the
amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), but it is unknown how early in development …

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

Early life stress (ELS) and function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis predict later
psychopathology. Animal studies and cross-sectional human studies suggest that this …

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 …

Early life stress increases risk for later psychopathology, due in part to changes in
dopaminergic brain systems that support reward processing and motivation. Work in animals …

Psychosocial acceleration theory suggests that pubertal maturation is accelerated in
response to adversity. In addition, suboptimal caregiving accelerates development of the …

Socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood predicts an increased risk for mental health
problems across the life span. Socioeconomic disadvantage shapes multiple aspects of …