Monday, January 01, 2024

Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations. Really!

What subtle brain changes are possibly caused by pseudo science and ideological obsession (e.g. like racialize everything) in researchers and scholars like the two authors/professors of the below article? 😊

How stupid and narrow minded are these two professors to do such primitive white and black skin comparisons! More poignantly, how did these two individuals even  become professor?

"The U.S. is in the midst of a racial reckoning [???]. The COVID-19 pandemic, which took a particularly heavy toll on Black communities, turned a harsh spotlight on long-standing health disparities that the public could no longer overlook.

Although the health disparities for Black communities have been well known to researchers for decades, the pandemic put real names and faces to these numbers. Compared with white people, Black people are at much greater risk for developing a range of health problems, including heart disease, diabetes and dementia. For example, Black people are twice as likely as white people to develop Alzheimer’s disease. ...

A vast and growing body of research shows that racism contributes to systems that promote health inequities. Most recently, our team has also learned that racism directly contributes to these inequities on a neurobiological level.

We are clinical neuroscientists who study the multifaceted ways in which racism affects how our brains develop and function. We use brain imaging to study how trauma such as sexual assault or racial discrimination can cause stress that leads to mental health disorders like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

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Racism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations by Negar Fani (Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Emory University) Nathaniel Harnett (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School) and 

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