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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2021

Neighborhood disadvantage and longitudinal brain-predicted-age trajectory during adolescence.

Divyangana Rakesh, Vanessa Cropley, Andrew Zalesky, Nandita Vijayakumar, Nicholas B Allen, Sarah Whittle

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Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Divyangana RakeshMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: divyangana.rakesh@gmail.com.
Vanessa CropleyMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia.
Andrew ZaleskyMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia; Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Nandita VijayakumarSchool of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Nicholas B AllenDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Sarah WhittleMelbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: swhittle@unimelb.edu.au.
The University of Melbourne · AUDeakin University · AUUniversity of Oregon · US

Funding

Neurodevelopmental Genomics: Trajectories of Complex PhenotypesRC2MH089983 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GUR, RAQUEL E · 2009 to 2011
$14.3M
2/2 Neurodevelopmental Genomics: Trajectories of Complex PhenotypesRC2MH089924 · NIMH · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI HAKONARSON, HAKON · 2009 to 2011
$10.7M
NIMH NIH HHS RC2 MH089924NIMH NIH HHS RC2 MH089983
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neighborhood disadvantage has consistently been linked to alterations in brain structure; however, positive environmental (e.g., positive parenting) and psychological factors (e.g., temperament) may buffer these effects. We aimed to investigate associations between neighborhood disadvantage and deviations from typical neurodevelopmental trajectories during adolescence, and examine the moderating role of positive parenting and temperamental effortful control (EC). Using a large dataset (n = 1313), a normative model of brain morphology was established, which was then used to predict the age of youth from a longitudinal dataset (n = 166, three time-points at age 12, 16, and 19). Using linear mixed models, we investigated whether trajectories of the difference between brain-predicted-age and chronological age (brainAGE) were associated with neighborhood disadvantage, and whether positive parenting (positive behavior during a problem-solving task) and EC moderated these associations. We found that neighborhood disadvantage was associated with positive brainAGE during early adolescence and a deceleration (decreasing brainAGE) thereafter. EC moderated this association such that in disadvantaged adolescents, low EC was associated with delayed development (negative brainAGE) during late adolescence. Findings provide evidence for complex associations between environmental and psychological factors, and brain maturation. They suggest that neighborhood disadvantage may have long-term effects on neurodevelopment during adolescence, but high EC could buffer these effects.

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BrainParentingAdolescentHumansResidence CharacteristicsTemperamentVulnerable PopulationsAdolescenceBrain ageBrain developmentBrain structureLongitudinalMachine learningMRIParentingSocioeconomic statusTemperamental effortful control

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