ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2019
Exposure to violence and low family income are associated with heightened amygdala responsiveness to threat among adolescents.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
- Adverse Life Experiences and Brain Function: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
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- Impacts of early life adversity on the neurocircuitry of emotional memory in children.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Implementing twelve-weeks of loving-kindness meditation and mindfulness of breathing for adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury and their parents: a mixed method pilot study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Associations of neighborhood threat and deprivation with psychopathology: Uncovering neural mechanisms.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Neighborhood Crime Risk and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Children's Neural Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- The impact of psychosocial adversity on brain and behaviour: an overview of existing knowledge and directions for future research.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Review
- Childhood Maltreatment and Amygdala-Mediated Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Following Adult Trauma.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Longitudinal associations of screen time, physical activity, and sleep duration with body mass index in U.S. youth.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood disadvantage to amygdala reactivity and the protective role of parental nurturance.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Examining the Bidirectional Associations Between Sleep Duration, Screen Time, and Internalizing Symptoms in the ABCD Study.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Friendship changes differentially predict neural correlates of decision-making for friends across adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neuroimmune mechanisms connecting violence with internalizing symptoms: A high-dimensional multimodal mediation analysis.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Perceived control, loneliness, early-life stress, and parents' perceptions of stress.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Associations between error-related negativity and childhood anxiety risk differ based on socioeconomic status.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- On the complex and dimensional relationship of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder during early childhood and child outcomes at school-age.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Neighborhood Crime on Neonatal Functional Connectivity.Biological psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The processing of emotional facial expressions is important for social functioning and is influenced by environmental factors, including early environmental experiences. Low socio-economic status (SES) is associated with greater exposure to uncontrollable stressors, including violence, as well as deprivation, defined as a lack or decreased complexity of expected environmental input. The current study examined amygdala and fusiform gyrus response to facial expressions in 207 early adolescents (mean age = 13.93 years, 63.3% female). Participants viewed faces displaying varying intensities of angry and happy faces during functional MRI. SES was assessed using the income-to-needs ratio (INR) and a measure of subjective social status. Cumulative exposure to violence was also assessed. When considered in isolation, only violence exposure was associated with heightened amygdala response to angry faces. When considered jointly, violence exposure and lower INR were both associated with increased amygdala response to angry faces and interacted, such that lower INR was associated with increased amygdala reactivity to anger only in those youth reporting no exposure to violence. This pattern of findings raises the possibility that greater amygdala reactivity to threat cues in children raised in low-SES conditions may arise from different factors associated with an economically-deprived environment.
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