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Recent results from a study dating back to 1972 revealed that early learning supports brain development into adulthood. Two groups making up 111 African-American participants received additional health care, nutrition and family-support services during the study. One of the groups also received five years of educational support. Now, as middle-aged adults, the group with the additional education showed structural differences in the brain. “Most doctors knew all along that children who get good intervention early on in their life had a better outcome in the future,” said Dr. Sri Halthore, pediatric neurologist at Pediatrix affiliate Neurology Specialists in Las Vegas, Nevada, who was not involved with the study. “To actually demonstrate on an MRI of the brain [an] increase in the size of certain areas of [the] brain in African-American children with good early intervention is very interesting.”
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