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 …

Linking interindividual variability in brain structure to behaviour

S Genon, SB Eickhoff, S Kharabian - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
What are the brain structural correlates of interindividual differences in behaviour? More
than a decade ago, advances in structural MRI opened promising new avenues to address …

A canonical trajectory of executive function maturation from adolescence to adulthood

B Tervo-Clemmens, FJ Calabro, AC Parr… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Theories of human neurobehavioral development suggest executive functions mature from
childhood through adolescence, underlying adolescent risk-taking and the emergence of …

The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity

SV Troller-Renfree, MA Costanzo, GJ Duncan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Early childhood poverty is a risk factor for lower school achievement, reduced earnings, and
poorer health, and has been associated with differences in brain structure and function …

Why and how does early adversity influence development? Toward an integrated model of dimensions of environmental experience

BJ Ellis, MA Sheridan, J Belsky… - Development and …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Two extant frameworks–the harshness-unpredictability model and the threat-deprivation
model–attempt to explain which dimensions of adversity have distinct influences on …

Adversity in childhood is linked to mental and physical health throughout life

CA Nelson, ZA Bhutta, NB Harris, A Danese, M Samara - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Adversity in childhood is linked to mental and physical health throughout life Page 1 TOXIC
STRESS AND PTSD IN CHILDREN Adversity in childhood is linked to mental and physical …

[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 …

Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms

M Ridley, G Rao, F Schilbach, V Patel - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of psychiatric disorders

J Guo, K Yu, SS Dong, S Yao, Y Rong, H Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observational studies have reported the correlations between brain imaging-derived
phenotypes (IDPs) and psychiatric disorders; however, whether the relationships are causal …

Racial disparities in adversity during childhood and the false appearance of race-related differences in brain structure

NM Dumornay, LAM Lebois, KJ Ressler… - American Journal of …, 2023 - psychiatryonline.org
Objective: Black Americans in the United States are disproportionately exposed to childhood
adversity compared with White Americans. Such disparities may contribute to race-related …