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ABCD: Childhood Poverty Raised Risk; Inhibitory Control Split Resilience

by GLOOM

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A 2026 ABCD cohort preprint involving 10,112 youth found that childhood poverty strengthened the link between cumulative early-life adversity and later behavioral problems; among poverty-exposed youth, inhibitory-control fMRI profiles split children into higher-vulnerability and buffered pathways. Research Highlights Poverty steepened adversity risk: In 10,112 ABCD youth, childhood poverty amplified the baseline early-life-adversity-to-CBCL Total Problems slope …

IQ and Socioeconomic Status: TwinLife Study Finds 69-98% Genetic Overlap

by GLOOM

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A 2026 TwinLife analysis found that cognitive ability at age 23 predicted education and occupational status at age 27, and bivariate twin models attributed 69-98% of the shared IQ–SES variance to genetic factors rather than unique environment.1 The calibrated reading is narrow but important: the finding argues against treating cognition, schooling, and occupation as purely …

Health Survey of England (2014): 50% of English Women Taking Prescription Drugs

by GLOOM

Each year a new Health Survey is conducted throughout England. It takes into account various health conditions and documents the number of individuals that report taking pharmaceutical medications. Results from the latest survey were recently unleashed and showed that 50% of all women and 43% of all men reported taking one prescription drug within the …