Prefrontal Cortex Response to Threat: Race by Age Variation in 9-10 Year Old Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Considerable research has suggested that race and age are two major determinants of brain development, including but not limited to development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDRs), however, suggests that race (as a proxy of racism) may interact with various determinants of human and brain development. Minimal knowledge, however, exists on whether age and race also interact on shaping PFC response to threat among American children.

Purpose

Using data from a task-based functional brain imaging study and considering race as a sociological rather than a biological construct, we investigated combined effects of race and age on prefrontal cortical (PFC) response to threat. We explored racial heterogeneities in the association between ag

SUBMITTER: Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7685290 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature