{"id":134650,"date":"2022-01-25T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/giving-low-income-us-families-4000-a-year-boosts-child-brain-activity"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:22:48","slug":"giving-low-income-us-families-4000-a-year-boosts-child-brain-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/giving-low-income-us-families-4000-a-year-boosts-child-brain-activity","title":{"rendered":"Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giving-low-income-us-families-4000-a-year-boosts-child-brain-activity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giving low-income families more money changes a child\u2019s brain activity, and the effect can be seen by a child\u2019s first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeuroscientists have described links between a child\u2019s socioeconomic background and the structure of the brain,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tc.columbia.edu\/faculty\/kgn2106\/\">Kimberly Noble<\/a> at Columbia University in New York. \u201cBut all that work has been correlational to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Noble and her team are looking at how exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2274144-basic-income-trial-is-testing-how-money-affects-child-development\/\">child poverty<\/a> causes reduced grey matter volume in the hippocampus and frontal cortex, which is associated with the subsequent development of thinking and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2254804-the-purpose-of-sleep-appears-to-change-when-we-are-toddlers\/\">learning.<\/a> These changes have been seen throughout childhood and adolescence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving low-income families more money changes a child\u2019s brain activity, and the effect can be seen by a child\u2019s first birthday. \u201cNeuroscientists have described links between a child\u2019s socioeconomic background and the structure of the brain,\u201d says Kimberly Noble at Columbia University in New York. \u201cBut all that work has been correlational to date.\u201d Instead, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}