This is the second part of Martha Farah's article on neuroscience, ethics and poverty. … [Read more...] about The Neuroethics of Poverty (Second part)
Martha Farah
Martha J. Farah is a cognitive neuroscientist with long-standing interests in neuroethics and the neuroscience of socioeconomic status. She is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania where she directs the Center for Neuroscience & Society and the Graduate Certificate Program in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN).
The Neuroethics of Poverty (Part one)
This post is the first part of two articles by Martha Farah about neuroscience, ethics, and poverty in relationship to childhood development. One of the strongest relations in epidemiology is between a person’s socioeconomic status (SES) and their risk of mood and anxiety disorders. In the field of psychometrics, a similarly robust relation is found between SES and … [Read more...] about The Neuroethics of Poverty (Part one)