Biography

Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez (pronouns he/him/his) is a postdoctoral scholar at the Herting Lab in the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. Carlos earned his PhD in Psychology and Integrative Neuroscience from the University of Chicago in 2019. His research focuses on using the ABCD Study dataset to explore the impact of social stratification on the environments in which people live, and how these environments, in turn, impact neural and cognitive development and mental health. His research interests also include the implementation of spatial analysis, critical race theory, and anti-racism principles in neuroscience/psychology research.

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Interests
  • Environmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Structural and Social Determinants of Health
Education

  • PhD in Psychology, Integrative Neuroscience, 2019

    The University of Chicago

  • MA in Psychology, 2015

    The University of Chicago

  • BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2009

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Jared Schachner, Ka I. Ip, Kathryn Schertz, Marybel Robledo Gonzalez, Shermaine Abad, Megan Herting (2023). Building Towards an Adolescent Neural Urbanome: Expanding Environmental Measures using Linked External Data (LED) in the ABCD Study. PsyArXiv.

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Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Marybel Robledo Gonzalez (2023). “We controlled for race and ethnicity...” Considerations for the use and communication of race and ethnicity in neuroimaging research. PsyArXiv.

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Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Jared Schachner, Ka I. Ip, Megan Herting (2023). Social and Environmental Context Variables for ABCD Linked External Data Release 5.0.

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Claire E. Campbell, Devyn L. Cotter, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Elisabeth Burnor, Hedyeh Ahmadi, W. James Gauderman, Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Daniel Hackman, Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Joel Schwartz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Megan M. Herting (2023). Air pollution and emotional behavior in adolescents across the U.S.. medRxiv.

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Kirthana Sukumaran, Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Elisabeth Burnor, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Daniel A. Hackman, Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Joel Schwartz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Megan M. Herting (2023). Ambient fine particulate exposure and subcortical gray matter microarchitecture in 9- and 10-year-old children across the United States. iScience.

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