ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2018
Socioeconomic status and the brain: prospects for neuroscience-informed policy.
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- Country-level gender inequality is associated with structural differences in the brains of women and men.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Scalp Event-Related Potentials: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
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- The Childhood Opportunity Index 2.0: Factor Structure in 9-10 Year Olds in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Exome sequencing identifies genes for socioeconomic status in 350,770 individuals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Population Diversity Matters: Heterogeneity of Biopsychosocial Pathways from Socioeconomic Status to Tobacco Use via Cerebral Cortical Volume in the ABCD Study.Journal of cellular neuroscience · 2025Article
- Profiles of academic and cognitive abilities differ in younger and older children from diverse socioeconomic neighbourhoods.Australian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Higher socioeconomic deprivation in areas predicts cognitive decline in New Zealanders without cognitive impairment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Structural inequality and temporal brain dynamics across diverse samples.Clinical and translational medicine · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopmental imprints of sociomarkers in adolescent brain connectomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic Disadvantage Moderates the Association of Systemic Inflammation With Amygdala Volume in Adolescents Over a 2-Year Interval: An Exploratory Study.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic resources in youth are linked to divergent patterns of network integration/segregation across the brain's transmodal axis.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with health (physical and mental) and cognitive ability. Understanding and ameliorating the problems of low SES have long been goals of economics and sociology; in recent years, these have also become goals of neuroscience. However, opinion varies widely on the relevance of neuroscience to SES-related policy. The present article addresses the question of whether and how neuroscience can contribute to the development of social policy concerning poverty and the social and ethical risks inherent in trying. I argue that the neuroscience approach to SES-related policy has been both prematurely celebrated and peremptorily dismissed and that some of its possible social impacts have been viewed with excessive alarm. Neuroscience has already made modest contributions to SES-related policy, and its potential to have a more effective and beneficial influence can be expected to grow over the coming years.
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