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A 2026 ABCD cohort preprint involving 10,112 youth found that childhood poverty strengthened the link between cumulative early-life adversity and later behavioral problems; among poverty-exp…
Read articleA 2026 ABCD stop-signal fMRI study found that group-level cognitive-control brain signals often failed to describe within-person brain dynamics: across 16 comparisons, between-person and wit…
Read articleA 2025 paper by Gu et al. in Molecular Psychiatry — the largest study of its kind — finds that higher common-variant genetic risk for autism predicts lower cortical neurite density in 31,748…
Read articleA 2026 ABCD Study preprint found that teen substance-use initiation prediction improved more when models included changing risk over time than when they simply switched from logistic regress…
Read articleA 2026 ABCD Study preprint involving 11,868 youth found stable time-ordered predictors of teen substance-use initiation, but the adjusted effects were small: most estimates ranged from −0.01…
Read articleStudies of adolescent cannabis effects on cognition have been limited by self-report and confounding. A 2026 longitudinal study by Wade and colleagues uses the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Dev…
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