Brain morphometry and diminished physical growth in Bangladeshi children growing up in extreme poverty: A longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Diminished physical growth is a common marker of malnutrition and it affects approximately 200 million children worldwide. Despite its importance and prevalence, it is not clear whether diminished growth relates to brain development and general cognitive ability. Further, diminished growth is more common in areas of extreme poverty, raising the possibility that it may mediate previously shown links between socioeconomic status (SES) and brain structure. To address these gaps, 79 children growing up in an extremely poor, urban area of Bangladesh underwent MRI at age six years. Structural brain images were submitted to Mindboggle software, a Docker-compliant and high-reproducibility tool for tissue segmentation and regional estimations of volume, surface area, cortical thickness, sulcal dept

SUBMITTER: Turesky TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605388 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature