Racism and alterations in brain structure and function: A narrative review of emerging neuroimaging evidence in racialized individuals
Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Moshirian Farahi, Jude Mary Cénat · 2026
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Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Moshirian Farahi and Jude Mary Cénat reviewed brain-scan evidence linking racism to brain change. Racial discrimination acts as a chronic stressor raising mental-illness risk, yet scan studies in racialised people were few and scattered. Their 2026 narrative review synthesised 19 neuroimaging studies across the lifespan in Black and other racialised people.
Discrimination tracked with stronger alarm-network links, weaker prefrontal links, frayed white matter, and thinning in cingulate cortex and hippocampus. These shifts tie to heightened vigilance, emotion dysregulation, and higher mental and physical health risk. The authors fault small, snapshot, low-diversity designs and call for longitudinal, multimodal, more diverse research.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Moshirian Farahi, Jude Mary Cénat |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 76 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |