Poverty and brain development during childhood : an approach from cognitive psychology and neuroscience /

"The present volume reviews the impact of different types of early deprivations on structural and functional brain organization. The risk from multiple influences of systemic poverty is that these children will suffer not only from loss of opportunity but from poor development of their nervous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipina, Sebastián J.
Other Authors: Colombo, Jorge A., 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:APA human brain development series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Conceptualization and measurement of poverty
  • Experimental models: effects of physical and social privation on brain development
  • Effects of poverty on development I: health, educational, and psychometric perspectives
  • Effects of poverty on development II: neuroscience perspectives
  • Intervention programs
  • Contributions to public policies.