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Smaller Size of Reward-Processing Brain Regions Precedes Weight Gain in Youth With High Financial Adversity

Given the rising rates of childhood obesity and its association with multiple chronic diseases, a team of Children's Hospital Los Angeles researchers examined the relationships between financial adversity, changes in the brain, and weight gain in adolescents. Economic hardship has been associated with changes in subcortical neurodevelopment and the risk of developing obesity, but studies have yet to illuminate how these different factors interact, and in what sequence.

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