Neighborhood-Level Disadvantage Impacts Multiple Measures of Brain Health: An Imaging Epidemiology Study
Ethan H. Willbrand, Elizabeth M. Stoeckl, Daryn S. Belden, Sheena Y. Chu, Eleanna M. Melcher, Daniil Zhitnitskii, Elena M. Bonke, Jussi Mattila, Usman Iftikhar, Juha R. Koikkalainen, Antti J Tolonen, Jyrki M. P. Lötjönen, Richard J. Bruce, John‐Paul J. Yu
This study investigates the association between neighborhood-level socioeconomic disadvantage and brain morphometry using neuroimaging data from 2,826 individuals, finding higher brain age gap, lower total brain volume, and increased white matter hyperintensity in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
bioRxiv · Mar 18, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience