Marginalization-Related Diminished Returns of Education and Employment
Brain Research
Analysis of the ABCD, ADNI, and NACC data shows the neurobiology of the effects of structural racism in the United States
At the MDRs Center, a multi-disciplinary team of brain imagers, neurobiologists, psychiatrists, and cognitive psychologists are studying how structural racism influences brain development. Our analysis of the ABCD data has documented weaker effects of parental education and household income on neurocognitive outcomes such as executive function, memory, inhibitory control, and emotion for Black than White children. Using functional, structural, and diffusion MRI, we have also documented weaker SES effects on the amygdala, thalamus, cerebral cortex, NAcc, and cerebrum for Black than White children. These diminished returns of SES are in part because stress, trauma, and discrimination remain high for all Black children, regardless of class and SES. We have observed that high SES increases, rather than decreases exposure and vulnerability to discrimination in Black children. Here are our ABCD papers.
Neuroimaging Experts
Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Ajilore, Olusola Alade, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois
Mallar Chakravarty, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal
Arash Javanbakht, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
Brian James Mickey, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah
Robert Cary Welsh
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah
Tanja Jovanovic, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
Negar Fani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University
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Ajilore, Olusola Alade, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois
Ajilore, Olusola Alade, MD PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois