June 4, 2015
Publication: The New Yorker
Featured Expert: Pat Levitt
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-poverty-does-to-the-young-brain
Poverty can create conditions of toxic stress, which weakens the architecture of the developing brain. This piece features the work of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and quotes its science director, Pat Levitt.