ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2021
Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children.
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- Recognition of adaptive stress response patterns in adolescents based on multiple hair biomarkers.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Age-related patterns of resting EEG power in infancy: Associations with prenatal socioeconomic disadvantage.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of the Stress System in Acute and Chronic Cardiac Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Differences in educational opportunity predict white matter development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sex-specific interactions between stress axis and redox balance are associated with internalizing symptoms and brain white matter microstructure in adolescents.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic Disparities in Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Regulation and Prefrontal Cortical Structure.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Review
- Differential Developmental Associations of Material Hardship Exposure and Adolescent Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortex White Matter Connectivity.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Socioeconomic disadvantage has been linked to increased stress exposure in children and adults. Exposure to stress in childhood has been associated with deleterious effects on cognitive development and well-being throughout the lifespan. Further, exposure to stress has been associated with differences in brain development in children, both in cortical and subcortical gray matter. However, less is known about the associations among socioeconomic disadvantage, stress, and children's white matter development. In this study, we investigated whether socioeconomic disparities would be associated with differences in white matter microstructure in the cingulum bundle, as has been previously reported. We additionally investigated whether any such differences could be explained by differences in stress exposure and/or physiological stress levels. White matter tracts were measured via diffusion tensor imaging in 58 children aged 5-9 years. Results indicated that greater exposure to stressful life events was associated with higher child hair cortisol concentrations. Further, physiological stress, as indexed by hair cortisol concentrations, were associated with higher fractional anisotropy in the cingulum bundle. These results have implications for better understanding how perceived and physiological stress may alter neural development during childhood.
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