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)
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Are we honestly focusing on children?
A few weeks ago, I read an interesting article in Time magazine that criticized “overparenting”—or extreme parenting--which has been a growing trend in the United States. … [Read more...] about Are we honestly focusing on children?