Publications

ORCID: 0000-0001-8549-1694

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Rosario, M. A., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Chavez, J., Bottenhorn, K. L., Ahmadi, H., Herting, M. M., & Thompson, W. K. (2026). Enriched neighborhood environments relate to episodic memory through prefrontal rather than medial temporal pathways during late childhood and early adolescence. Brain and Environment. doi:10.1016/j.braen.2026.100033
2. Rosario, M. A., Sukumaran, K., Bottenhorn, K. L., de Jesus, A., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Ahmadi, H., Habre, R., Abad, S., Pine, J. G., Barch, D. M., Schwartz, J., Hackman, D. A., Chen, J.-C., & Herting, M. M. (2026). Ambient pollution components and sources are associated with hippocampal architecture and memory in pre-adolescents. BMC Medicine. doi:10.1186/s12916-026-04950-5
3. Morrel, J., Sukumaran, K., Torgerson, C., Rosario, M. A., Lan, H., Schwartz, J., Chen, J.-C., Choupan, J., & Herting, M. M. (2026). Outdoor air pollution, perivascular space morphology, and cognition in preadolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. doi:10.1016/j.bpsgos.2026.100790
4. Sukumaran, K., Bottenhorn, K. L., Rosario, M. A., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Habre, R., Abad, S., … & Herting, M. M. (2025). Sources and components of fine air pollution exposure and brain morphology in preadolescents. Science of the Total Environment, 979, 179448.
5. Morrel, J., Dong, M., Rosario, M. A., Cotter, D. L., Bottenhorn, K. L., & Herting, M. M. (2025). A systematic review of air pollution exposure and brain structure and function during development. Environmental Research, 121368.
6. Bottenhorn, K. L., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Schachner, J. N., Rosario, M. A., Mills, K. L., Laird, A. R., & Herting, M. M. (2024). Adolescent neurodevelopmental variance across social strata. JAMA Network Open, 7, e2410441. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.10441
7. Rosario, M. A., Kern, K. L., Mumtaz, S., Storer, T. W., & Schon, K. (2024). Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with cortical thickness of medial temporal brain areas associated with spatial cognition in young but not older adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(1), 82–100. doi:10.1111/ejn.16200

Manuscripts Under Review & Preprints

8. Del Giacco, A. C.*, Rosario, M. A.*, Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Chawla, N., Wen, A., Sukumaran, K., Overholtzer, L. N., Chen, J.-C., Lahey, B. B., Moore, T. M., & Herting, M. M. (2026). Air pollution, early adversity, and amygdala: Environmental correlates of psychopathology in preadolescents. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.08.31.748438 *Co-first authors
9. Rosario, M. A., Alotaibi, R., Espinal-Martinez, A. O., Ayoub, A., Clark, U., Baumann, A., Cozier, Y., & Schon, K. (preprint). Personal mastery attenuates the association between greater perceived discrimination and lower amygdala and anterior hippocampal volume in a diverse sample of older adults. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.01.12.575447

Recent Scientific Posters

• Rosario, M. A., Farina, M., Ailshire, J., & Brown, L. L. Amenity variety is linked to memory but not executive function trajectories in U.S. older adults. Gerontological Society of America, Baltimore, MD, November 2026. PDF
• Rosario, M. A., Farina, M., Ailshire, J., & Brown, L. L. Amenity variety and neighborhood-to-neighborhood gaps in it are associated with late-life episodic memory trajectories in the Health and Retirement Study. Geroscience Los Angeles Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 2026.
• Rosario, M. A., Del Giacco, A. C., Wen, A., Sukumaran, K., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Pine, J., Barch, D. M., Ahmadi, H., & Herting, M. M. Ambient air pollution does not modify early life adversity effects on hippocampal structure or function in preadolescents. Flux Society, San Diego, CA, September 2026. PDF