Memphis Mayor A C Wharton recently talked to Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam about toxic stress, brain development, and epigenetics. The mayor may not have used those actual words, but in asking for the state's help to fight Memphis' intractable poverty, he was discussing them nonetheless.
Poverty Undermines the Genetic Potential of Our Youngest Citizens
January 25, 2011
New studies show that poverty interacts with genes to undermine early brain development.These findings are especially important for Memphians, where far too many of our youngest citizens are at risk of growing up in poverty.
