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ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2023

Relationship Between Neighborhood Poverty and Externalizing Symptoms in Children: Mediation and Moderation by Environmental Factors and Brain Structure.

Megan Y Maxwell, Rita L Taylor, Deanna M Barch

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Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06221839 (Structural Racism, Neurocognition in Reward Related Decision Making and Substance Use Risk), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06221839 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Structural Racism, Neurocognition in Reward Related Decision Making and Substance Use Risk

TypeobservationalSponsorColumbia UniversityRan2026 to 2027Enrolled72ConditionsStructural Racism, Substance Use Risk
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Neighborhood Deprivation and Adolescent Mental Health: The Protective Role of School Staffing Patterns.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026
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  6. Social Determinants of Health, the developing brain, and risk and resilience for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  13. Neighborhood Resource Deprivation as a Predictor of Bullying Perpetration and Resource-Driven Conduct Symptoms.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Megan Y MaxwellDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA. meganymaxwell@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9238-1581
Rita L TaylorDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA.
Deanna M BarchDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63130, USA.

Funding

Adolescent Substance Use Initiation: Disentangling neurocognitive risks from consequences using longitudinal and genetically-informed methodsU01DA041120 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Monica Luciana, Sylia Wilson · 2015 to 2026
$34.5M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children living in poverty exhibit worse mental health outcomes, and various environmental and neurological risk factors may contribute to or mitigate this relationship. However, previous research has not examined the interplay of neighborhood SES, mental health, and relevant mechanisms. We examined the extent to which neighborhood poverty uniquely contributes to children's internalizing/externalizing disorder symptoms, as well as identified whether brain measures, toxin levels, and neighborhood threat mediated this relationship and whether socioemotional support moderated it. Data were collected from 8623 9-10 year olds as part of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Using a secondary data analysis, we found that neighborhood poverty was positively associated with externalizing symptoms and mediated by reduced intracranial volume and parents/children reporting feeling less safe. Parental support (i.e., Parental Monitoring Survey) attenuated this link, but only for children lower in poverty. Consideration of these risk factors for psychopathology could improve the outcome of holistic interventions.

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Child Behavior DisordersPovertyAdolescentBrainChildHumansMental HealthSurveys and QuestionnairesBrain developmentChildren’s internalizingEarly life adversityExternalizing disordersNeighborhood povertySocioemotional support

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