Altered default mode network associated with pesticide exposure in Latinx children from rural farmworker families.

ABSTRACT: Pesticide exposure has been associated with adverse cognitive and neurological effects. However, neuroimaging studies aimed at examining the impacts of pesticide exposure on brain networks underlying abnormal neurodevelopment in children remain limited. It has been demonstrated that pesticide exposure in children is associated with disrupted brain anatomy in regions that make up the default mode network (DMN), a subnetwork engaged across a diverse set of cognitive processes, particularly higher-order cognitive tasks. This study tested the hypothesis that functional brain network connectivity/topology in Latinx children from rural farmworker families (FW children) would differ from urban Latinx children from non-farmworker families (NFW children). We also tested the hypothesis that probable

SUBMITTER: Bahrami M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9251855 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature