12.02.2008 - EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Jan 09
  

  Clara Ryder

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• 31 Dec 08
  

  Joan Vinall-Cox

  Look at these results in conjunction with the research Gladwell reports in Outliers showing that low-income children learn as well as the better off during the school year, but lose ground during the summer when the better off get enriching activities, and the low-income kids do not. via Stephen Downes

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  • "This is a wake-up call," Knight said. "It's not just that these kids are poor and more likely to have health problems, but they might actually not be getting full brain development from the stressful and relatively impoverished environment associated with low socioeconomic status: fewer books, less reading, fewer games, fewer visits to museums."
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• 15 Dec 08
  

  Shanta Rohse

  "Kids from lower socioeconomic levels show brain physiology patterns similar to someone who actually had damage in the frontal lobe as an adult," said Robert Knight, director of the institute and a UC Berkeley professor of psychology. "This is a wake-up c

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• 10 Dec 08
  

  Marc Boots-Ebenfield

  PLE talk brain differences

  • Boyce, a pediatrician and developmental psychobiologist, heads a joint UC Berkeley/UBC research program called WINKS - Wellness in Kids - that looks at how the disadvantages of growing up in low socioeconomic circumstances change children's basic neural development over the first several years of life
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• 09 Dec 08
  

  Darrel Branson

  BERKELEY — University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown for the first time that the brains of low-income children function differently from the brains of high-income kids.
  
  In a study recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, scientists at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the School of Public Health report that normal 9- and 10-year-olds differing only in socioeconomic status have detectable differences in the response of their prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is critical for problem solving and creativity.

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• 06 Dec 08
  

  Joanna Yu

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