Friday, February 20, 2015

Trauma and the Teenage Brain

                         
Chronic stress can cause deficiencies in the pre-frontal cortex, which is essential for learning.
                                                   
"As researchers work to solve one of the most persistent problems in public education – why kids in poor neighborhoods fail so much more often than their upper-income peers – more and more they're pointing the finger at what happens outside the classroom.
Shootings. Food insecurity. Sirens and fights in the night. Experts are finding that those stressors build up, creating emotional problems and changes in the brain that can undermine even the clearest lessons."

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