Children's Brain: Article Analysis

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In an article written by Charlotte Lytton in the Daily Beast, she explains a recent study by researchers at the Saban Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Columbia Medical Center that supports the theory that the amount of money a family has and their level of education can contribute to the development and size of the children’s brain. In this study, scientists observed the size of the brains of children of all ages who lived in households that made a small amount of money and compared them with children whose family made a significant amount of money each year. The results showed that the children from wealthier homes had significantly larger and more developed brains than the kids from poorer homes. Children who had parents

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