SynthesisChild neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence2021
Neural correlates of socioeconomic status in early childhood: a systematic review of the literature.
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- The Earliest Impressions: A Systematic Review of Early-Life Exposures on Brain Structure and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Optimal brain development is context-dependent: How socioeconomic status moderates brain-behavior relationships in cognitive and academic development.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
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- Integrating socioeconomic context with multimodal EEG data for improved ADHD risk screening.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Cognitive Electrophysiology in Socioeconomic Context in Adulthood.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The impact of psychosocial adversity on brain and behaviour: an overview of existing knowledge and directions for future research.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Review
- Socioeconomic status moderates associations between hippocampal development and cognition in preterms.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
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- Disparate benefits of higher childhood socioeconomic status on cognition in young adulthood by intersectional social positions.Advances in life course research · 2024Article
- The Necessity of Taking Culture and Context into Account When Studying the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Brain Development.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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It is now established that socioeconomic variables are associated with cognitive, academic achievement, and psychiatric outcomes. Recent years have shown the advance in our understanding of how socioeconomic status (SES) relates to brain development in the first years of life (ages 0-5 years). However, it remains unknown which neural structures and functions are most sensitive to the environmental experiences associated with SES. Pubmed, PsycInfo, and Google Scholar databases from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2019, were systematically searched using terms "Neural" OR "Neuroimaging" OR "Brain" OR "Brain development," AND "Socioeconomic" OR "SES" OR "Income" OR "Disadvantage" OR "Education," AND "Early childhood" OR "Early development". Nineteen studies were included in the full review after applying all exclusion criteria. Studies revealed associations between socioeconomic and neural measures and indicated that, in the first years of life, certain neural functions and structures (e.g., those implicated in language and executive function) may be more sensitive to socioeconomic context than others. Findings broadly support the hypothesis that SES associations with neural structure and function operate on a gradient. Socioeconomic status is reflected in neural architecture and function of very young children, as early as shortly after birth, with its effects possibly growing throughout early childhood as a result of postnatal experiences. Although socioeconomic associations with neural measures were relatively consistent across studies, results from this review are not conclusive enough to supply a neural phenotype of low SES. Further work is necessary to understand causal mechanisms underlying SES-brain associations.
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