What happens to the poor in old age?

Adults can be so sensitive to the social and economic situation that they can activate and change their function, Kosova Prees broadcast.

Past studies have shown that child biochemy can change if they grow up in environments that lack proper education, food and access to health protection.

It is less known, however, that socioeconomic factors can also affect adults.

We know that socioeconomic status affects the structure of the brain in childhood and the elderly, but there is still an unkempt area,” said Gagan Wig, neuroscientist at Texas University in Dallas.

“We wanted to see whether there was a relationship between socio-economic status and the brain in a wider range of adults”, he added.

In a study published in Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Wig and his colleagues have applied brain-captive technology to about 300 subjects between the ages of 20 and 90.

Their socio-economic situation is measured by the combination of education and “expectations” of each individual.

Researchers' results suggest a possible link between socioeconomic status and changes in structure and brain function.

In middle - aged people, they noted that with a higher “status” they had a brain network that was more efficient organized, and their grey issue in the Cortics was thicker.

On the other hand, people with lower socioeconomic status had smaller crusts that could be a cause for concern because this feature is associated with connoisseur injuries later in life, including memory loss and delinquency.

These data provide a photograph of each of the participants at the time of research”, said Micaela Chan, lead author of the study.

“The sense of individuals through life will provide more information on brain changes and their relations with events and life status”, she added.

And Wig says that what we find in adults in the middle of age is corruption between socioeconomic status and brain function and anatomy.

And what makes these results even more interesting is that individuals we've studied were mainly on the poverty line, which proves that socioeconomic relations between status and brain are not limited to individuals in extreme areas of socioeconomic status, but are present at a wider social and economic range of status”, he said,