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Racial disparities can affect brain development in Black children, new study finds. Claretta Bellamy. Updated February 2, 2023 at 4:51 PM. Bryan R. Smith.
At the same time newborn black children have the same average brain size as white children, suggesting that the difference in average size could be accounted for by differences in environment. [76] Several environmental factors that reduce brain size have been demonstrated to disproportionately affect black children. [76]
In the pamphlet Rushton recounted how black Africans had been seen by outside observers through the centuries as naked, insanitary, impoverished and unintelligent. In modern times he remarked that their average IQ of 70 "is the lowest ever recorded", due to smaller average brain size.
[18] [19] These differences are thought to be due to the effects of language differences on brain development. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] A 2010 study on variability in frontotemporal brain structure between African Americans and European Americans found differences in brain structure, despite the participants all being from an English speaking nation.
Dr. Odette Harris is director of brain injury care at Stanford Medicine in California. In 2018, she became one of the first Black female professors of neurosurgery in the U.S. Many people believed ...
The children were first tested in 1975 at age 7. In 1985, 196 of the original 265 children were retested at age 17. The data showed mixed adoptees scoring slightly lower than white adoptees with gaps of 3 and 7 points at ages 7 and 17, while black adoptees scored 15 and 17 points below white adoptees at ages 7 and 17.
So all of those, I think, play into why we have a child-policing system today that investigates a large number of Black families and removes so many—one out of 10 Black children—from their ...
At the time of the study, the children were aged between 5 and 13 (mean age: 10). The mothers of the children were approximately matched for socio-economic status; they were mostly of low socioeconomic status. There were about 98 mixed race (black-white), and about 83 white children in the sample. [5]