Socio-economic disadvantage is associated with alterations in brain wiring economy
Publication: bioRxiv
Roma Siugzdaite, Danyal Akarca, Amy Johnson, Sofia Carozza, Alexander L Anwyl-Irvine, Stepheni Uh, Tess Smith, Giacomo Bignardi, Edwin Dalmaijer, Duncan E. Astle
10 June 2022
Summary
The quality of a child’s social and physical environment is a key influence on brain development, educational attainment and mental wellbeing. However, there still remains a mechanistic gap in our understanding of how environmental influences converge on changes in the brain’s developmental trajectory. In a sample of 145 children with structural diffusion tensor imaging data, researchers used generative network modelling to simulate the emergence of whole brain network organisation.