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The neurobiology of social stress resulting from Racism: Implications for pain disparities among racialized minorities.
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- Stress grounded in experiences of racial discrimination: a cluster analysis among a racially diverse sample in Canada.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Racism and alterations in brain structure and function: A narrative review of emerging neuroimaging evidence in racialized individuals.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Psychological pathways from daily discrimination to pain: a longitudinal mediation model.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- The Burden of Witnessing: The Impact of Vicarious Experiences of Racism & Anti-Immigrant Discrimination on Healthcare Utilization.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Racial Disparities in Long COVID: Why Black Americans are Likely Underrepresented in Long COVID Estimates.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
- Perceived Racial Stress Effects on Neuropsychological Functioning in African Americans are Mediated by the Brain's Reward/Safety SEEKING Systems via Neuroimmune and Neuroendocrine Pathways.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Emergency Department Utilization among Older Black Adults with Chronic Illness in the United States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Mental disorders in the Black population: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Understanding risk and protective factors for pain and healthy aging: an intersectional and resilience-based perspective.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Unmet health-related social needs are associated with pain outcomes among midlife and older adults.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychological flexibility and stigma in chronic pain: a cross-sectional study of healthcare professionals in the UK.Pain management · 2025Article
- Addressing maternal cardiovascular risk: The impact of lactation, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and racial disparities.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2025Article
- "Morbus Mediterraneus" and its impact on medical care in Germany: the intersection of pain and racism.BMC medical ethics · 2025Review
- Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric Asthma and Allergic Diseases: A Systematic Review.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Discrimination and wellbeing are differentially related to pain severity for the racially marginalized.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The emergence of chronic diseases of adulthood and middle age in the young: the COIDS (chronic inflammation, obesity, insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes, and depressive syndromes) noxious quartet of pro-inflammatory stress outcomes.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Associations between the neural-hematopoietic-inflammatory axis and DNA methylation of stress-related genes in human leukocytes: Data from the Washington, D.C. cardiovascular health and needs assessment.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Disparities in Pain Evaluation and Treatment During Labor: A Racial and Ethnic Perspective.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Examining associations among daily discrimination, psychosocial risk factors, and pain outcomes in people with chronic low back pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Extant literature posits that humans experience two types of threat: physical threat and social threat. While describing pain as "physical" or "social" can be helpful for understanding pain origins (i.e., broken bone versus lost relationship), this dichotomy is largely artificial and not particularly helpful for understanding how the human brain experiences pain. One real world example of social exclusion and rejection that is threatening and likely to bring about significant stress is racism. Racism is a system of beliefs, practices, and policies that operates to disadvantage racialized minorities while providing advantage to those with historical power, particularly White people in the United States and most other Western nations. The objective of this Mini-Review is to present evidence in support of the argument that racism promotes physical pain in racialized minorities, which in turn promotes chronic pain disparities. First, we provide a theoretical framework describing how racism is a potent stressor that affects the health and well-being of racialized minorities. We will then address the neurobiological underpinnings linking racism to social threat, as well as that linking social threats and physical pain. Finally, we will discuss how the perception of social threat brought about by racism may undermine pain management efforts.
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