Study Highlights How Racism & Poverty Can Impact Black Children’s Brain Development

A new study sheds light on how childhood adversity can impact the brain, and it specifically showed that racism and poverty can physically alter the organ’s development. Thousands Of Kids’ MRI Scans Were Examined The findings were recently published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, and it involved Harvard researchers examining MRI scans taken from thousands of children—7,350 white, and 1,786 Black. Participants were all aged between nine and ten years old, and the objective was to explore “the relationship between racial disparities in adversity exposure and race-related differences in brain structure.” In other words, they essentially wanted to see… Read Full Article