Environmental influences on the pace of brain development

UA Tooley, DS Bassett, AP Mackey - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood socio-economic status (SES), a measure of the availability of material and social
resources, is one of the strongest predictors of lifelong well-being. Here we review evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different?

D Rakesh, S Whittle, MA Sheridan… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with children's brain and behavioral
development. Several theories propose that early experiences of adversity or low SES can …

Socioeconomic status and the developing brain–A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth

D Rakesh, S Whittle - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
A growing literature has shown associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and
neural properties (such as brain structure and function). In this review, we aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Early life stress and brain function: Activity and connectivity associated with processing emotion and reward

MP Herzberg, MR Gunnar - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Investigating the developmental sequelae of early life stress has provided researchers the
opportunity to examine adaptive responses to extreme environments. A large body of work …

Associations between neighborhood disadvantage, resting-state functional connectivity, and behavior in the adolescent brain cognitive development study: the …

D Rakesh, C Seguin, A Zalesky, V Cropley… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Neighborhood disadvantage has consistently been associated with mental
health and cognitive function, in addition to alterations in brain function and connectivity …

Impact of early life stress on reward circuit function and regulation

JL Hanson, AV Williams, DA Bangasser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Early life stress–including experience of child maltreatment, neglect, separation from or loss
of a parent, and other forms of adversity–increases lifetime risk of mood, anxiety, and …

[HTML][HTML] Poverty and self-regulation: Connecting psychosocial processes, neurobiology, and the risk for psychopathology

EE Palacios-Barrios, JL Hanson - Comprehensive psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In the United States, over 40% of youth under the age of 18 live at or near the
federal poverty line. Several decades of research have established clear links between …

[HTML][HTML] Similar but distinct–Effects of different socioeconomic indicators on resting state functional connectivity: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive …

D Rakesh, A Zalesky, S Whittle - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Early socioeconomic status (SES) has consistently been associated with child health and
cognitive outcomes, in addition to alterations in brain function and connectivity. The goal of …

The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality

KG Noble, MA Giebler - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Socioeconomic disparities in brain structure and function are prevalent.•The
mechanisms that may underlie disparities in brain development are discussed.•Future steps …

Brain network coupling associated with cognitive performance varies as a function of a child's environment in the ABCD study

ME Ellwood-Lowe, S Whitfield-Gabrieli… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prior research indicates that lower resting-state functional coupling between two brain
networks, lateral frontoparietal network (LFPN) and default mode network (DMN), relates to …