“..Youth poverty ‘affects adult brain’..”

“..Adversity in early childhood – in the form of anything from poverty to physical abuse – has measurable changes in the function of the brain and body well into adulthood – according to researchers.

Growing up in worse socioeconomic circumstances can impair working memory as an adult – and affect the size of different parts of the brain -

- while abuse can lead to a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease in later life – they report…”

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Childhood adversity affects adult brain and body functions, researchers find | Science | The Guardian.

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