A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

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A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

A study of more than 2,300 9- to 10-year-olds found that socioeconomic factors explained most differences in the preteens' ...

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Luby is an infant/preschool psychiatrist clinician researcher at Washington University School of Medicine. Barch is a clinical scientist researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. The New York ...

New hyperscanning research reveals that when bilingual mothers and children play together, their brains align just as strongly in a second language as in their native tongue, challenging assumptions ...

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Economic conditions at home and in the local community may play a significant role in children’s development, according to a ...