Study links childhood socioeconomic conditions to brain patterns (opens in new tab)

A study published June 11 in Science found strong associations between socioeconomic conditions and differences in children’s brain structure and function. The researchers used brain-wide association analyses to map 649 environmental, behavioral and health variables to children’s MRI data. The study focused on children around ages 9 and 10; NPR described an analysis of more than 2,300 children, while Medizindoc and Euronews described the broader ABCD Study dataset as including nearly 12,000 c...