Association between everyday perceived discrimination and cognitive function as mediated by depression in diverse populations: A HABS‐HD Study
Edna Patricia Mendoza, Emma Nolan, Nicole Phillips, Robert Barber, Sid E O'Bryant, Zhengyang Zhou · 2025
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Everyday slights and unfair treatment may wear down the aging brain, partly through mood. Edna Mendoza and co-authors tested in 2025 whether depression carries the effect of felt discrimination on thinking scores, comparing three ethnic groups.
Their sample held 1,129 adults over fifty from a brain-health study: African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic white participants. Across all three groups, felt discrimination linked to worse thinking scores, and depression fully explained the link. Split by group, the pathway held for white and Mexican American participants but not for African American participants. The authors suggest treating depression could blunt one route from unfair treatment to cognitive harm.
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| CREATOR | Edna Patricia Mendoza, Emma Nolan, Nicole Phillips, Robert Barber, Sid E O'Bryant, Zhengyang Zhou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |