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Hansen, M., Simon, K.R., He, X., Steele, N., Thomas, M.L., Noble, K.G., & Merz, E.C. (2024). Socioeconomic factors, sleep timing and duration, and amygdala resting-state functional connectivity in children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15:1373546.
Hansen, M., Simon, K. R., Strack, J., He, X., Noble, K. G., & Merz, E. C. (2022). Socioeconomic disparities in sleep duration are associated with cortical thickness in children. Brain and Behavior.
Merz, E.C., Strack, J., Hurtado, H., Vainik, U., Thomas, M., Evans, A., & Khundrakpam, B. (2022). Educational attainment polygenic scores, socioeconomic factors, and cortical structure in children and adolescents. Human Brain Mapping.
Strack, J., Hurtado, H., Khundrakpam, B., Vainik, U., Thomas, M.L., & Merz, E.C (2021, September). Socioeconomic Context, Polygenic Scores for Educational Attainment, Cortical Structure and Neurocognitive Skills in Children and Adolescents. FLUX Conference.  
Simon, K.R., Merz, E.C., He, X., Desai, P.M., Meyer, J.S., & Noble, K.G. (2021). Socioeconomic factors, stress, hair cortisol, and white matter microstructure in children. Developmental Psychobiology, 1-12.
Merz, E.C., Monk, C., Bansal, R., Sawardekar, S., Lee, S., Feng, T., Spann, M., Foss, S., McDonough, L., Werner, E., Peterson, B.S. (2020). Neonatal brain metabolite concentrations: Associations with age, sex, and developmental outcomes. PLoS ONE, 15(12).
Lichtin, R.D., Merz, E.C., He, X., Desai, P.M., Simon, K.R., Melvin, S.A., Maskus, E.A., Noble, K.G. (2020). Material hardship, prefrontal cortex-amygdala structure, and internalizing symptoms in children. Developmental Psychobiology, 00: 1– 14.
Merz, E.C., He, X., Meyers, B., &  Noble, K.G. (2020). Socioeconomic disadvantage, chronic stress, and hippocampal subfield development in children. Neuroscience Insights, 15, 1-4.
Merz, E.C., Maskus, E.A., Melvin, S., He, X., & Noble, K.G. (2020). Socioeconomic disparities in language input are associated with children’s language-related brain structure and reading skills. Child Development. 91(3), 846-860.
Merz, E.C., Desai, P.M., Rehman, R., Torres, S.D., Maskus, E.A., Melvin, S.A., Meyer, J., He, X., & Noble, K.G. (2019). Socioeconomic disparities in chronic physiologic stress are associated with brain structure in children. Biological Psychiatry. 86, 921-929.
Merz, E.C., Wiltshire, C.A., & Noble, K.G. (2019). Socioeconomic inequality and the developing brain: Spotlight on language and executive function. Child Development Perspectives, 13(1), 15-20.
Merz, E.C., Tottenham, N., & Noble, K.G. (2018). Socioeconomic status, amygdala volume, and internalizing symptoms in children and adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 47(2), 312-323.
Piccolo, L.R., Merz, E.C., He, X., Sowell, E.R., & Noble, K.G. (2016). Age-related differences in cortical thickness vary by socioeconomic status. PLOS One, 11(9):e0162511.
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