Poverty and Brain Development

from 3quarksdaily by Robin Varghese

I originally thought that this should be "interest" but then realised that many people working in the personal advice and guidance arena may well (probably are) dealing with people with "low socioeconomic status".
This is not just about poverty, real or relational, determined by whatever criterion is decided in the political climate in which the statistics operate. This is about perceptions of the person who has a lower status than other people in his or her community.

Mauricio Delgado over at the Scientific American blog has done reports on research into the effects of poverty on the brain. "Surprisingly, the most stressful part of being of lower socioeconomic status might not be feelings of deprivation, as might be expected, but rather the subjective perception of our lower social standing."