Association of Child Poverty, Brain Development, and Academic Achievement.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Children living in poverty generally perform poorly in school, with markedly lower standardized test scores and lower educational attainment. The longer children live in poverty, the greater their academic deficits. These patterns persist to adulthood, contributing to lifetime-reduced occupational attainment.

Objective

To determine whether atypical patterns of structural brain development mediate the relationship between household poverty and impaired academic performance.

Design, setting, and participants

Longitudinal cohort study analyzing 823 magnetic resonance imaging scans of 389 typically developing children and adolescents aged 4 to 22 years from the National Institutes of Health Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Normal Brain Development with compl

SUBMITTER: Hair NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4687959 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature