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ArticleBiological psychiatry global open science2024

Disentangling Socioeconomic Status and Race in Infant Brain, Birth Weight, and Gestational Age at Birth: A Neural Network Analysis.

Kathryn Sarullo, Deanna M Barch, Christopher D Smyser, Cynthia Rogers, Barbara B Warner, J Philip Miller, Sarah K England, Joan Luby, S Joshua Swamidass

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Article in Biological psychiatry global open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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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  3. Racial and ethnic socioenvironmental inequity and neuroimaging in psychiatry: a brief review of the past and recommendations for the future.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Kathryn SarulloDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Deanna M BarchDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Christopher D SmyserDepartment of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cynthia RogersDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Barbara B WarnerDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
J Philip MillerDivision of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Sarah K EnglandDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Joan LubyDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
S Joshua SwamidassDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

Early Life Adversity, Biological Embedding, and Risk for Developmental Precursors of Mental DisordersR01MH113883 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JOAN L. LUBY, Christopher Daniel Smyser · 2018 to 2026
$20.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113883
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Race is commonly used as a proxy for multiple features including socioeconomic status. It is critical to dissociate these factors, to identify mechanisms that affect infant outcomes, such as birth weight, gestational age, and brain development, and to direct appropriate interventions and shape public policy. Methods: Demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical variables were used to model infant outcomes. There were 351 participants included in the analysis for birth weight and gestational age. For the analysis using brain volumes, 280 participants were included after removing participants with missing magnetic resonance imaging scans and those matching our exclusion criteria. We modeled these three different infant outcomes, including infant brain, birth weight, and gestational age, with both linear and nonlinear models. Results: Nonlinear models were better predictors of infant birth weight than linear models ( Conclusions: Consistent with the extant social science literature, the findings related to birth weight suggest that race is a linear proxy for nonlinear factors related to structural racism. Methods that can disentangle factors often correlated with race are important for policy in that they may better identify and rank the modifiable factors that influence outcomes.

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Birth weightBrain volumesGestational ageLinear regressionMachine learningNeural networksRaceSocioeconomic status

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PMID38298774
PMCPMC10829562
OpenAlexW4377292190

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