Racial Disparities in Adversity During Childhood and the False Appearance of Race-Related Differences in Brain Structure.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Black Americans in the United States are disproportionately exposed to childhood adversity compared with White Americans. Such disparities may contribute to race-related differences in brain structures involved in regulating the emotional response to stress, such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex (PFC). The authors investigated neuroanatomical consequences of racial disparities in adversity.

Methods

The sample included 7,350 White American and 1,786 Black American children (ages 9-10) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (public data release 2.0). Structural MRI data, parent and child self-reports of adversity-related measures, and U.S. Census neighborhood data were used to investigate the relationship between racial disparities i

SUBMITTER: Dumornay NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897449 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature