Neighborhood disadvantage may pose an environmental risk to brain development in children University of Southern California | May 6, 2021
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The research appears this week in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
These findings highlight the importance of neighborhood environments for child and adolescent brain development, the researchers said, and suggest that policies, programs and investments that help improve local neighborhood conditions and empower communities could support children’s neurodevelopment and long-term health.
“This is the first large, national study of neurodevelopment to determine that the role of neighborhood disadvantage is similar across all regions of the country, and we found that what mattered most were the local differences in neighborhood disadvantage within each city, rather than how cities differ from each other overall,” said lead author Daniel Hackman, assistant professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of S
Annotated Bibliography: The American Journal For Clinical Nutrition
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Citation: Chasan-Taber, L., Willett, W. C., Seddon, J. M., Stampfer, M. J., Rosner, B., Colditz, G. A., Speizer, F., Hankinson S. E., (1999). A Prospective Study of Vitamin Supplement Intake and Cataract Extraction among U.S. Women. The American Journal for Clinical Nutrition, 70(4), 509-516. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/70/4/509.full
Author affiliation: âFrom the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Departments of Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; and Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School,
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UB alumnus Dexter Johnson, NASA Technical Fellow for Loads and Dynamics, and Peter Rogerson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Geography, will receive the UB President’s Medal in recognition of extraordinary service to the university.
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