ArticleBiological psychiatry global open science2023
The Association Between Maternal Cortisol and Infant Amygdala Volume Is Moderated by Socioeconomic Status.
Article in Biological psychiatry global open science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Simplifying Daily Cortisol Cycle Analysis: Validation and Benchmarking of the Cortisol Sine Score Against Cosinor and JTK_CYCLE models.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health, the developing brain, and risk and resilience for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Prenatal Adversity and Neonatal White Matter Microstructure Independently Relate to Language Outcomes at Age 2 Years.The Journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Prenatal social disadvantage is associated with alterations in functional networks at birth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Prenatal Stress and Maternal Role in Neurodevelopment.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Prenatal Social Determinants of Health: Narrative review of maternal environments and neonatal brain development.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Impact of Maternal Environment and Inflammation on Fetal Neurodevelopment.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Background: It has been well established that socioeconomic status is associated with mental and physical health as well as brain development, with emerging data suggesting that these relationships begin in utero. However, less is known about how prenatal socioeconomic environments interact with the gestational environment to affect neonatal brain volume. Methods: Maternal cortisol output measured at each trimester of pregnancy and neonatal brain structure were assessed in 241 mother-infant dyads. We examined associations between the trajectory of maternal cortisol output across pregnancy and volumes of cortisol receptor-rich regions of the brain, including the amygdala, hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex, and caudate. Given the known effects of poverty on infant brain structure, socioeconomic disadvantage was included as a moderating variable. Results: Neonatal amygdala volume was predicted by an interaction between maternal cortisol output across pregnancy and socioeconomic disadvantage (standardized β = -0.31, Conclusions: These data suggest that fetal development of the amygdala is differentially affected by maternal cortisol production at varying levels of socioeconomic advantage.
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