What is not measured cannot be counted: sample characteristics reported in studies of hippocampal volume and depression in neuroimaging studies
Publication information:
Keyes, K., Kreski, N., Joseph, V., Hamilton, A., Hatzenbuehler, M. L., McLaughlin, K. A., & Weissman, D. (2023). What is not measured cannot be counted: sample characteristics reported in studies of hippocampal volume and depression in neuroimaging studies. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , 8(5), 492-494.
Abstract
The field of population neuroscience is expanding, with increasingly large samples, geographic and demographic diversity of participants, and longitudinal studies accelerating the progress of the field. As progress accelerates, there is an increasing ability to consider how social context and structural factors, as well as sampling methods and sample composition, modify associations from neuroimaging studies and influence the magnitude of observed effect sizes across studies.