Association of Racial Discrimination With Neural Response to Threat in Black Women in the US Exposed to Trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Racial discrimination has a clear impact on health-related outcomes, but little is known about how discriminatory experiences are associated with neural response patterns to emotionally salient cues, which likely mediates these outcomes.

Objective

To examine associations of discriminatory experiences with brainwide response to threat-relevant cues in trauma-exposed US Black women as they engage in an attentionally demanding task.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study was conducted from May 1, 2014, to July 1, 2019, among 55 trauma-exposed US Black women to examine associations of racial discrimination experiences with patterns of neural response and behavior to trauma-relevant images in an affective attentional control task. Posttraumati

SUBMITTER: Fani N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8319825 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature