Tag: inequality

Mental Health and Brain Health

What Brain Changes Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Inequality

What Brain Changes Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Inequality
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A study in Nature Mental Health suggests that children living in U.S. states with higher income inequality tended, on average, to show very small differences in brain structure and connectivity. Some of these brain measures statistically accounted for a portion

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health
13 min read

  • Patel, V. et al. Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms. World Psychiatry 17, 76–89 (2018).

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  • Wilkinson, R. G. & Pickett, K.

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