ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2023
Relating neighborhood deprivation to childhood obesity in the ABCD study: Evidence for theories of neuroinflammation and neuronal stress.
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- Enriched neighborhood environments relate to episodic memory through prefrontal rather than medial temporal pathways during late childhood and early adolescence.Brain and environment · 2026Article
- Weight gain and brain development in the ABCD study cohort: A decade of insight and the road ahead.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Geographic Measures of Early Life-Course Social Exposome in the Evaluation of Structural Neuroanatomy: A Scoping Review.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Review
- A Scoping Review of Neighborhood Effects and Health Among Children and Adolescents: Measurement and Design Characteristics.Journal of community psychology · 2025Article
- Delay discounting and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity are related to weight status in adolescents from the ABCD study.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Sex-at-Birth and Age Analyses of Cortical Structure in the ABCD Study.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurodevelopmental subtypes of functional brain organization in the ABCD study using a rigorous analytic framework.NeuroImage · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopmental Subtypes of Functional Brain Organization in the ABCD Study Using a Rigorous Analytic Framework.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Variation in executive function relates to BMI increases in youth who were initially of a healthy weight in the ABCD Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- The implications of socioeconomic factors on salivary bioscience methodological variables in a large pediatric multi-site study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Childhood obesity is linked to putative neuroinflammation in brain white matter, hypothalamus, and striatum.Cerebral cortex communications · 2023Article
- Access to quality health resources and environmental toxins affect the relationship between brain structure and BMI in a sample of pre and early adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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objectiveWe evaluated whether relationships between area deprivation (ADI), body mass index (BMI) and brain structure (e.g., cortical thickness, subcortical volume) during preadolescence supported the immunologic model of self-regulation failure (NI) and/or neuronal stress (NS) theories of overeating. The NI theory proposes that ADI causes structural alteration in the brain due to the neuroinflammatory effects of overeating unhealthy foods. The NS theory proposes that ADI-related stress negatively impacts brain structure, which causes stress-related overeating and subsequent obesity.
methodData were gathered from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (9 to 12 years old;
resultsBMI at 9 to 10 years old partially mediated the relationship between ADI and ventral diencephalon (DC) volume at 11 to 12 years old. Additionally, the ventral DC at 9 to 10 years old partially mediated the relationship between ADI and BMI at 11 to 12 years old, even in youth who at baseline, were of a healthy weight. Results were unchanged when controlling for differences in brain structure and weight across the 2-years.
conclusionGreater area deprivation may indicate fewer access to resources that support healthy development, like nutritious food and nonstressful environments. Our findings provide evidence in support of the NI and NS theories of overeating, specifically, with greater ADI influencing health outcomes of obesity via brain structure alterations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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