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From school climate to brain development: What the ABCD study reveals about the educational context of adolescence.
| Τίτλος: | From school climate to brain development: What the ABCD study reveals about the educational context of adolescence. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Thompson EL; Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, USA. Electronic address: erthomps@fiu.edu., Sawi OM; Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA., Roy EA; Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA., Abad S; J. Craig Venter Institute, USA., Kaiver CM; Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, USA., Lehman SM; Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, USA., Tay J; Laureate Institute for Brain Research, USA., Gonzalez MR; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University, USA., Van Rinsveld A; Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA., Dowling GJ; The National Institute on Drug Abuse, The National Institutes of Health, USA., Brown SA; Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego, USA., Jernigan TL; Center for Human Development and Cognitive Science Department, UC San Diego, USA., McCandliss BD; Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, USA., Hoffman EA; The National Institute on Drug Abuse, The National Institutes of Health, USA. Electronic address: elizabeth.hoffman@nih.gov. |
| Πηγή: | Developmental cognitive neuroscience [Dev Cogn Neurosci] 2026 Aug; Vol. 80, pp. 101746. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 May 25. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article; Review |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 101541838 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1878-9307 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 18789293 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Dev Cogn Neurosci Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Amsterdam : Elsevier |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Adolescent Development*/physiology , Brain*/growth & development , Adolescent Behavior*/physiology , Adolescent Behavior*/psychology , Schools* , Social Environment*, Humans ; Adolescent ; Neurodevelopment ; Longitudinal Studies |
| Περίληψη: | Children and adolescents spend much of their time in school, and educational environments are central to neurodevelopment and socioemotional health. However, educational constructs are often underrepresented in developmental cognitive neuroscience research. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM (ABCD) Study provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine schooling within a large, diverse, longitudinal cohort with rich neuroimaging and socioenvironmental data. This narrative review synthesizes education-related ABCD publications identified through a comprehensive search of the ABCD publication repository. Across 109 studies (representing approximately 7% of ABCD Study publications), educational environments emerged as multilevel systems that shape development through interconnected pathways. Supportive school environments were modestly associated with more favorable neurodevelopment, emotional and behavioral functioning, and daily health-related behaviors, often buffering the effects of prior child adversity. In contrast, adverse school experiences, including discipline, unfair treatment, and school lockdowns, functioned as meaningful sources of stress that contributed to mental health concerns, earlier substance use initiation, and physical health risk, particularly when occurring alongside stress in other settings. In several cases, these relationships were bidirectional, suggesting that youth behavior and school experiences may reinforce one another over time. Overall, ABCD findings indicate that school environments are not merely background contexts or proxies for socioeconomic conditions, but distinct and modifiable factors that can both exacerbate risk and promote resilience. Future research leveraging longitudinal, multilevel, and externally linked contextual data will be critical for identifying when and how educational environments can be targeted to improve adolescent outcomes. (Copyright © 2026. Published by Elsevier Ltd.) |
| Competing Interests: | Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests. Erin L. Thompson reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Christine Kaiver reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Sarah Lehman reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Marybel Gonzalez reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Sandra Brown reports was provided by National Institutes of Health. Terry Jernigan reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Jolene Tay reports financial support was provided by National Institutes of Health. Drs. Gayathri Dowling and Elizabeth Hoffman contributed to the interpretation of the data and participated in the preparation, review and approval of the manuscript, consistent with their roles as Science Officers on ABCD grants. Other authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. |
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| Grant Information: | U24 DA041147 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA051039 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041120 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA051018 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041093 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U24 DA041123 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA051038 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA051037 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA051016 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041117 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041148 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041174 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041134 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041022 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041156 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA050987 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041025 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA050989 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041089 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA050988 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041106 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; K01 MD018069 United States MD NIMHD NIH HHS; U01 DA041028 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS; U01 DA041048 United States DA NIDA NIH HHS |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: ABCD study; Academic achievement; Adolescent development; Educational neuroscience; School context |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260529 Date Completed: 20260811 Latest Revision: 20260927 |
| Update Code: | 20260927 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13242015 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101746 |
| PMID: | 42214838 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1878-9307 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101746 |