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Baobab

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8. Do you mean that the stress of poverty impacts poor people's health?

Reply to eridani (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:32 AM

Mar 2016

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(It does) So does noise. Noise actually causes permanent decrements in IQ. Early life noise can cause substantial measurable decrements in intelligence. It also seems to be important in late middle age in terms of neuroinflammation.

Stress shrinks the hippocampus and amygdala and uses up aspects of the brain's repair capacity as measured by telomere length.

Also, see the emerging concepts of allostasis and/or allostatic load.

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A college degree is worth less to poor kids [View all] eridani Feb 2016 OP

I think a distinction needs to be made between worth less and worthless. CBGLuthier Feb 2016 #1

I agree. No reason not to try anyway eridani Feb 2016 #2

Suppose we are doing a simulation and the liklihood of said education leading to work, ever Baobab Mar 2016 #10

I don't see enough analysis to draw that conclusion FBaggins Feb 2016 #3

It doesn't say what possibilities the researchers are investigating, but Nay Feb 2016 #4

Everything you said noamnety Feb 2016 #5

You are exactly right. Every great job I had was one that I was referred to. DawgHouse Mar 2016 #11

Smells like the usual rationalization for depriving more and more Americans of an education. Baobab Mar 2016 #6

No--it means that education by itself isn't enough n/t eridani Mar 2016 #7

Do you mean that the stress of poverty impacts poor people's health? Baobab Mar 2016 #8

I totally agree, if one does not have a support network, its nearly impossible. Baobab Mar 2016 #9