Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with altered cortical organization
Apoorva Safai, Sterling C Johnson, Erin M Jonaitis, Rebecca E Langhough, W Ryan Powell, William R Buckingham, Barbara B Bendlin, Amy JH Kind, Pallavi Tiwari · 2025
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Apoorva Safai and co-authors link poor neighborhoods to changes in brain layout in a 2025 study. People in poor areas tend to have worse health and weaker thinking skills in old age. The team uses a new scan method that maps how alike the shapes of brain regions are. They ask whether this map can show how neighborhood strain gets into the brain.
The study covers 526 adults with no thinking problems from two Wisconsin research programs. Each person's home area got a hardship score based on income, schooling, jobs, and housing. The team compared the brain maps of people from the hardest-hit areas with those from the best-off areas. Shape patterns differed between the groups. Such maps may help explain how place shapes later memory loss.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Apoorva Safai, Sterling C Johnson, Erin M Jonaitis, Rebecca E Langhough, W Ryan Powell, William R Buckingham, Barbara B Bendlin, Amy JH Kind, Pallavi Tiwari |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |