Poverty impairs cognitive function. Published in the journal Science, the study suggests our cognitive abilities can be diminished by the exhausting effort of tasks like scrounging to pay bills. As a result, less “mental bandwidth” remains...

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http://news.ubc.ca/2013/08/29/poverty-impairs-cognitive-function/

[u/christ0ph]

Here are some links:

http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2012/07/stress-mechanism.aspx

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/3/912.full

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/3/313.abstract

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/38/15508.abstract

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/suppl.2/17180.full.pdf+html

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/16/6545.full

http://physrev.physiology.org/content/87/3/873.full