Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that how children’s brains process emotional cues typically is set by the time they are school age. They studied brain scans from hundreds of children ages 5 to 15 who watched videos that dealt with emotional topics.
Black children on average undergo more family conflict, material hardship and traumatic events than white children, resulting in differences in gray matter volume in key brain regions and disorders such as PTSD, data show.
Caregivers and parents of Black children had lower income, lower educational attainment and more unemployment compared with those of white children. As a result, the former