Neighborhood disadvantage and brain myelination: Insights from infancy to childhood
Leela Shah, Elizabeth Bond, Elizabeth Planalp, Marissa DiPiero, Jayse Weaver, Irene Quiterio Perez, Kuan-Fu Chen, Corrina Frye, Steven Kecskemeti, Andrew Alexander, Douglas Dean · 2026
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Leela Shah and co-authors link in 2026 neighbourhood hardship to white matter growth in babies and children, using a national hardship index and brain scans. Their set held 61 scans from 43 children aged from birth to 10 years, with a scan signal that tracks myelin, the fatty coat on nerve fibres.
Higher hardship scores tied to lower myelin signals in six named white matter tracts that serve thought, feeling, and movement in the brain. Whole brain maps backed that pattern, and the tie ran strongest in the baby subgroup of the set. Early hardship may thus bend brain growth paths, and work ahead should find which hardship parts drive the link.
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| CREATOR | Leela Shah, Elizabeth Bond, Elizabeth Planalp, Marissa DiPiero, Jayse Weaver, Irene Quiterio Perez, Kuan-Fu Chen, Corrina Frye, Steven Kecskemeti, Andrew Alexander, Douglas Dean |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42040 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |