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This talk will describe research examining how parents and neighborhood disadvantage are related to brain function. The talk will focus on a population ecological neuroscience approach to understanding how poverty “gets under the skin” to impact brain development.
Specifically, the talk will describe research linking parenting and neighborhood risk to neural function in emotion and regulatory regions of the brain using representative samples with enrichment for exposure to disadvantage. Additionally, the talk will cover current and future directions using novel designs (experimental, twin) to get closer to causal models.
About the speaker
Luke Hyde’s research aims to better understand the development of risk and resilience in children and families, particularly the development of child psychopathology and antisocial behaviors (e.g., aggression, violence, rule breaking). Much of his work focuses on families facing adversity or living in poverty in order to understand how children succeed or struggle in the face of adversity.
His specific areas of research include:
- How experience shapes brain development
- How antisocial behavior and callous-unemotional traits develop from the preschool period into adolescence and early adulthood
- The role parenting and neighborhoods play in child and family development
- Understanding how nature and nurture interact over time to influence development
- The neural correlates of psychopathology, antisocial behavior and psychopathy
- Resilience