How early environment influences the developing brain and long‐term mental health

Abstract

Abstract The March 2024 issue of JCPP Advances features two neuroimaging studies that investigate links between early environmental risk factors for mental health problems, brain development and psychopathology in children and young adults. The papers provide new insights into how adverse environments and negative experiences in childhood increase risk for depression and mental health problems, and how this may or may not be mediated, or moderated, by individual differences in the brain.

Keywords

• brain
• environment
• mental health
• negative life events
• neurodevelopment
• neuroimaging