Deadly gun violence, neighborhood collective efficacy, and adolescent neurobehavioral outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Gun violence is a major public health problem and costs the United States $280 billion annually (1). Although adolescents are disproportionately impacted (e.g. premature death), we know little about how close adolescents live to deadly gun violence incidents and whether such proximity impacts their socioemotional development (2, 3). Moreover, gun violence is likely to shape youth developmental outcomes through biological processes-including functional connectivity within regions of the brain that support emotion processing, salience detection, and physiological stress responses-though little work has examined this hypothesis. Lastly, it is unclear if strong neighborhood social ties can buffer youth from the neurobehavioral effects of gun violence. Within a nationwide birth cohort of 3,444

SUBMITTER: Gard AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9272173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature