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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2026

Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth.

Sarah D Lichenstein, Yihe Weng, Heather Robinson, Lester Rodriguez, Marzieh Babaeianjelodar, Joliza Maynard, Menessa Metayer, Suhani Suneja, Amar Ojha, Corey Horien and 6 more

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Sarah D LichensteinDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Yihe WengDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Heather RobinsonDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States; Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States.
Lester RodriguezDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Marzieh BabaeianjelodarDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Joliza MaynardDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Menessa MetayerDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Suhani SunejaDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Amar OjhaDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States.
Corey HorienDepartment of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; MD-PhD program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abigail S GreeneInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; MD-PhD program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
R Todd ConstableDepartment of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Tyler M MooreDepartment of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Lifespan Brain Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Ran BarzilayDepartment of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Lifespan Brain Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Sarah W YipDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, United States; Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, United States.
Arielle S KellerDepartment of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States; Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Connecticut, United States. Electronic address: arielle.keller@uconn.edu.

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Each individual's complex, multidimensional environment, known as their "exposome", plays an essential role in shaping cognitive neurodevelopment. Understanding the mechanisms whereby children's exposome influences their development is crucial to facilitate the design of interventions to foster positive developmental trajectories for all youth. Recent work has identified a general exposome factor associated with socio-economic inequality that is strongly related to cognition and individual differences in the spatial organization of functional brain networks in youth. Building on these findings, the current study explores whether alterations in functional connectivity may represent a potential mechanism linking variation in the exposome to cognitive performance. We apply a data-driven, cross-validated, whole-brain machine learning approach, connectome-based statistical inference, to identify patterns of functional connectivity associated with exposome scores among early adolescents enrolled in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study using data collected during three cognitive tasks and during rest. Additionally, we investigate whether the identified patterns of functional connectivity relate to individual differences in cognitive performance across three domains: General Cognition, Executive Functioning, and Learning/Memory. Models incorporating 10-fold cross-validation over 100 iterations identified consistent functional connections associated with the exposome across task and rest conditions (model performance: ns = 6137 - 8391, rs = 0.34-0.44, ps < .001). Results were robust across data collection sites and functional connections common across all significant models were associated with cognitive performance across domains (ps < 0.0009). Collectively, these findings reveal that multidimensional environmental exposures are reflected in patterns of functional connectivity and relate to cognitive functioning among youth.

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