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A University College London study found that adults who experienced persistent financial hardship across their lives showed poorer cognitive performance and signs of accelerated brain aging later in life.
The research drew on 2,759 U.K. participants from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, all born in 1946.
Verbal memory, processing speed, and MRI markers including brain shrinkage and enlarged ventricles tracked worse among those reporting chronic low income or sustained financial stress.
The measures and what the scans showed Cognitive tests in the study measured verbal memory and processing speed.
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