Socioeconomic Inequality and the Developing Brain: Spotlight on Language and Executive Function DOI Open Access
Emily C. Merz, Cynthia A. Wiltshire, Kimberly G. Noble

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Child Development Perspectives, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 13(1), P. 15 - 20

Published: Oct. 15, 2018

Abstract Robust evidence of the deleterious effects poverty on children's academic achievement has generated considerable interest in neural mechanisms underlying these associations. In studies specific neurocognitive skills, researchers have found pronounced socioeconomic disparities language and executive function (EF) skills. this article, we review research linking factors (e.g., family income, parental education) with brain structure function, focusing systems involved EF. Then, cover potential mediators associations, developmental timing, strategies for prevention intervention. To complement at behavioral level, conclude recommendations integrating measures developing into ongoing work.

Language: Английский

Nurturing Nature: How Brain Development Is Inherently Social and Emotional, and What This Means for Education DOI Creative Commons
Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang, Linda Darling‐Hammond,

Christina Krone

et al.

Educational Psychologist, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 54(3), P. 185 - 204

Published: July 3, 2019

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it enables directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research reveal importance socially triggered epigenetic contributions to network configuration, with implications for functioning, cognition, motivation, learning. Brain is also impacted by health-related physical developmental factors, such as sleep, toxin exposure, puberty, which turn influence functioning cognition. An appreciation dynamic interdependencies experience, underscores a "whole child" approach education reform leads important insights To facilitate these interdisciplinary conversations, here we conceptualize within framework current evidence fundamental ubiquitous biological constraints affordances undergirding learning–related constructs more broadly. Learning indeed depends how nature nurtured.

Language: Английский

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Socioeconomic status and the brain: prospects for neuroscience-informed policy DOI
Martha J. Farah

Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 19(7), P. 428 - 438

Published: June 4, 2018

Language: Английский

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Longitudinally Mapping Childhood Socioeconomic Status Associations with Cortical and Subcortical Morphology DOI Creative Commons
Cassidy L. McDermott, Jakob Seidlitz, Ajay Nadig

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Journal of Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 39(8), P. 1365 - 1373

Published: Dec. 26, 2018

Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) impacts cognitive development and mental health, but its association with human structural brain is not yet well characterized. Here, we analyzed 1243 longitudinally acquired MRI scans from 623 youth (299 female/324 male) to investigate the relation between SES cortical subcortical morphology ages 5 25 years. We found positive associations total volumes of brain, sheet, four separate structures. These were stable 25. Surface-based shape analysis revealed that higher associated areal expansion lateral prefrontal, anterior cingulate, temporal, superior parietal cortices ventrolateral thalamic, medial amygdalo-hippocampal subregions. Meta-analyses functional imaging data indicate correlates are centered on systems subserving sensorimotor functions, language, memory, emotional processing. further show anatomical variation within a subset these regions partially mediates IQ. Finally, identify neuroanatomical exist above beyond accompanying in Although clearly complex construct likely relates through diverse, nondeterministic processes, our findings elucidate potential mediators outcomes.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT has been developmental disparities ability, academic achievement, efforts understand underlying SES-brain relationships ongoing. leverage unique neuroimaging dataset map regional anatomy at high spatiotemporal resolution. find widespread global surface area localize correlations distributed set cortical, Anatomical relationship Our help represent candidate biological substrates for known cognition.

Language: Английский

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Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour DOI
Sarah Genon, Simon B. Eickhoff, Shahrzad Kharabian Masouleh

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Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 23(5), P. 307 - 318

Published: April 1, 2022

Language: Английский

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Socioeconomic status and the developing brain – A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in youth DOI
Divyangana Rakesh, Sarah Whittle

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 130, P. 379 - 407

Published: Aug. 30, 2021

Language: Английский

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Development of a mobile low-field MRI scanner DOI Creative Commons
Sean Deoni,

Paul Medeiros,

Alexandra T. Deoni

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(1)

Published: April 5, 2022

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows important visualization of the brain and central nervous system anatomy organization. However, unlike electroencephalography (EEG) or functional near infrared spectroscopy, which can be brought to a patient study participant, MRI remains hospital center-based modality. Low magnetic field strength systems, however, offer potential extend beyond these traditional center boundaries. Here we describe development modified cargo van that incorporates removable low-field permanent magnet demonstrate its proof-of-concept. Using phantom scans in vivo T2-weighted neuroimaging data, show no significant differences with respect geometric distortion, signal-to-noise ratio, tissue segmentation outcomes data acquired mobile compared similar static laboratory setting. These encouraging results show, for first time, performed at participant's home, community center, school, etc. Breaking barriers access, this approach may enable patients participants who have mobility challenges, live long distances from centers, are otherwise unable travel an hospital.

Language: Английский

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Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different? DOI Creative Commons
Divyangana Rakesh, Sarah Whittle, Margaret A. Sheridan

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 27(9), P. 833 - 851

Published: May 11, 2023

Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with children's brain and behavioral development. Several theories propose that early experiences of adversity or low SES can alter the pace neurodevelopment during childhood adolescence. These make contrasting predictions about whether adverse are accelerated delayed neurodevelopment. We contextualize these within context normative development cortical subcortical structure review existing evidence on structural to adjudicate between competing hypotheses. Although none fully consistent observed SES-related differences in development, suggests trajectories more a simply different developmental pattern than an acceleration

Language: Английский

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Building towards an adolescent neural urbanome: Expanding environmental measures using linked external data (LED) in the ABCD study DOI Creative Commons

Carlos Cardenas‐Iniguez,

Jared N. Schachner, Ka I Ip

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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 65, P. 101338 - 101338

Published: Jan. 4, 2024

Many recent studies have demonstrated that environmental contexts, both social and physical, an important impact on child adolescent neural behavioral development. The adoption of geospatial methods, such as in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, has facilitated exploration many contexts surrounding participants' residential locations without creating additional burdens for research participants (i.e., youth families) neuroscience studies. However, number linked databases increases, developing a framework considers various domains related to environments external their home becomes crucial. Such needs identify structural contextual factors may yield inequalities children's built natural environments; these differences may, turn, result downstream negative effects children from historically minoritized groups. In this paper, we develop – which describe "adolescent urbanome" use it categorize newly geocoded information incorporated into ABCD Study by Linked External Data (LED) Environment & Policy Working Group. We also highlight relationships between measures possible applications Neural Urbanome. Finally, provide recommendations considerations regarding responsible communication data, highlighting potential harm groups through misuse.

Language: Английский

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Heterogeneous factors influence social cognition across diverse settings in brain health and age-related diseases DOI Creative Commons
Sol Fittipaldi,

Agustina Legaz,

Marcelo Maito

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Nature Mental Health, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(1), P. 63 - 75

Published: Jan. 2, 2024

Abstract Aging diminishes social cognition, and changes in this capacity can indicate brain diseases. However, the relative contribution of age, diagnosis reserve to especially among older adults global settings, remains unclear when considering other factors. Here, using a computational approach, we combined predictors cognition from diverse sample 1,063 across nine countries. Emotion recognition, mentalizing overall were predicted via support vector regressions various factors, including (subjective cognitive complaints, mild impairment, Alzheimer’s disease behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia), demographics, cognition/executive function, motion artifacts functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings. Higher cognitive/executive functions education ranked top predictors, outweighing reserve. Network connectivity did not show predictive values. The results challenge traditional interpretations age-related decline, patient–control differences associations emphasizing importance heterogeneous

Language: Английский

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Childhood socioeconomic status and executive function in childhood and beyond DOI Creative Commons
Briana S. Last, Gwendolyn M. Lawson, Kaitlyn Breiner

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PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 13(8), P. e0202964 - e0202964

Published: Aug. 24, 2018

Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts health, wellbeing, and cognitive ability, including executive function (EF). A body of recent work has shown that childhood SES is positively related to EF, but it not known whether this disparity grows, diminishes or holds steady over development, from through adulthood. We examined the association between EF in a sample ranging 9-25 years age, with six canonical tasks. Analyzing all tasks together functionally defined groups, we found positive relations did vary by age. separately, was associated performance some measures, depending on covariates used, again without varying These results add growing evidence abilities, contribute novel concerning persistence into early

Language: Английский

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