Can poverty get under your skin? Basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children from low and high socioeconomic status

By Sonia J. Lupien, S. King, Michael Joseph Meaney, Bruce S. McEwen. Development and Psychopathology, 2001

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Maternal stress beginning in infancy may sensitize children to later stress exposure: effects on cortisol and behavior. (2002, background): “Previous studies have demonstrated positive associations between concurrent stress exposure and children's cortisol levels (Gunnar and Donzella 2002; Lupien et al 2000, 2001; Schmidt et al 1997; Tout et al 1998).”
Alerting, orienting, and executive attention: developmental properties and sociodemographic correlates in an epidemiological sample of young, urban children. (2004, background): “Cortisol, an important endproduct regulated by the HPA axis, with its potent trophic effects is essential to brain development, including those areas of the medial and dorsolateral prefrontal regions implicated in attention and executive functions (Gunnar & Donzella, 2002; Lupien, King, Meaney, & M”
Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research (2010, background): “Some studies do not find SES differences in all tasks of executive functio”
Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. (2009, background): “Several studies have also linked low socioeconomic status to higher levels of cortisol and epinephrine during daily life (Cohen et al. 2006a,b; Evans & English 2002; JanickiDeverts et al. 2007; Lupien et al. 2000, 2001) 506 Miller · Chen · Cole A nn u.”
Socioeconomic Disparities Affect Prefrontal Function in Children (2009, background): “In addition, LSES children tend to have higher basal levels of the stress hormone cortisol and poorer selective attention than HSES children (Lupien, King, Meaney, & McEwen, 2001 ).”
Childhood poverty: specific associations with neurocognitive development. (2006, background): “Stress is more commonwithin low SES families (Dohrenwend, 1973), and low SES children tend to have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol (e.g., Lupien et al., 2001), which is damaging to the hippocampus.”
How experience gets under the skin to create gradients in developmental health. (2010, background): “Systematic differences in cortisol levels have been reported according to parental income, education, and employment status (65, 66); the mother’s depressive symptoms (28, 67); childhood adversity (11, 30, 38); and the stressfulness of social environments (32, 38).”
Influence of family socioeconomic status on IQ, language, memory and executive functions of Brazilian children (2016, background): “2013), until about ten years old (Lupien et al. 2001), probably due to their complexity and prolonged development (Evans and Fuller-Rowell 2013; Noble et al.”