Dr. Kimberly Noble

29 06, 2015

Impoverished Circumstances Affect Developing Brains: MRI Study

2015-06-29T21:39:29-04:00June 29th, 2015|Brain MRI, Medical Imaging, MRI, MRI Research, Radiology|

A troubling new MRI study has uncovered that there are differences in brain development between wealthy and impoverished children. The study, called Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents was published in Nature Neuroscience spring 2015. It is the largest socioeconomic MRI brain study to date; its researchers spent 3 years studying [...]