ArticleHuman brain mapping2016
Pathway to neural resilience: Self-esteem buffers against deleterious effects of poverty on the hippocampus.
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- The Association Between Neighborhood Poverty and Hippocampal Volume Among Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: The Moderating Role of Social Engagement.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- How Do Self-Esteem, Dispositional Hope, Crisis Self-Efficacy, Mattering, and Gender Differences Affect Teacher Resilience during COVID-19 School Closures?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The paradoxical effects of social class on career adaptability: The role of intolerance of uncertainty.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Low Self-esteem and Mental Distress among Undergraduate Medical Students in Jimma University: A Cross-Sectional Study.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2021Article
- Parental Education and Left Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortical Activity during N-Back Task: An fMRI Study of American Adolescents.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Analyzing brain structural differences among undergraduates with different grades of self-esteem using multiple anatomical brain network.Biomedical engineering online · 2021Article
- Social Adaptation in Context: The Differential Role of Religiosity and Self-Esteem in Vulnerable vs. Non-vulnerable Populations - A Registered Report Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Family Income Mediates the Effect of Parental Education on Adolescents' Hippocampus Activation During an N-Back Memory Task.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Resilience and the brain: a key role for regulatory circuits linked to social stress and support.Molecular psychiatry · 2020Review
- Neural correlates of social well-being: gray matter density in the orbitofrontal cortex predicts social well-being in emerging adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- The hippocampus underlies the association between self-esteem and physical health.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Socioeconomic status moderates age-related differences in the brain's functional network organization and anatomy across the adult lifespan.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Time-varying effects of income on hippocampal volume trajectories in adolescent girls.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
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- Influence of parental care on offspring hippocampal volume in young adults varies as a function of overprotection.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Human neuroimaging studies have shown that people living in poverty tend to suffer hippocampal atrophy, which leads to impaired memory and learning throughout life. However, behavioral studies demonstrate that poor people with high self-esteem are often exempt from the deleterious effect of poverty and instead possess a happy and successful life. Here we investigated whether high self-esteem can buffer against the deleterious effects of poverty, as indicated by low subjective socioeconomic status (SSS), on the hippocampal gray matter volume (GMV) in a large cohort of young participants (N = 280). As expected, findings revealed that although low (vs. high) SSS was linked with a smaller hippocampal GMV, the deleterious effect of low SSS on hippocampal GMV was alleviated when the participants have high self-esteem. Commonality analyses further confirmed this observation. The current study suggests that positive psychological resources such as self-esteem may provide protection for the hippocampal atrophy in adversity. Hum Brain Mapp 37:3757-3766, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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