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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Poverty Dramatically Affects the Children Thinking Pattern

In a study it is found that poverty affects certain brain functions in low income group families. The researcher Mark Kishiyama said that this is because, of reduction in prefrontal function. This stroke is more in the low income group children than the wealthy children.

Researchers pointed to the negative effects of undernourishment, stress, illiteracy and toxic environments in low-income children's lives, and the neural systems of underprivileged children develop in a different way from those of middle-class children, the ability to plan, remember details and pay attention in school.

Even though the effects of poverty are reversible, children need tremendous strong interventions to overcome this difficulty. In research it is found that poverty affects not only thinking capacity, but also functioning of brain and behavior of the person.

The researchers found an enormous dissimilarity in the low-income children's aptitude to detect block out distractions which is a major function of the prefrontal cortex.

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