Positive Parenting Overcomes the Effects of Poverty on Brain Development
New research shows that positive parenting can overcome the
effects of poverty on healthy brain development in
adolescents. In a
report published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Brody and colleagues described a neuroimaging study
demonstrating that supportive parenting prevented the reduced
growth of certain areas of the brain that occurred as a response to
living in poverty.…
