Neighborhood stress may impact kids’ brains — and increase depression risk

Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods — areas with higher levels of crime and deprivation, and lower access to community resources — are at risk of developing depression and new research led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, may help to explain why.

Psychologists at Binghamton found that the brains of children from areas containing higher levels of deprivation show less response to reward and loss, but only if they were already at risk for…

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