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Racial discrimination, neural connectivity, and epigenetic aging among Black women

Elbasheir A, Katrinli S, Kearney BE, Lanius RA, Harnett NG, Carter SE, Ely TE, Bradley B, Gillespie CF, Stevens JS, Lori A, van Rooij SJH, Powers A, Jovanovic T, Smith AK, Fani N. Racial Discrimination, Neural Connectivity, and Epigenetic Aging Among Black Women. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(6):e2416588. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.16588

Population-level normative models reveal race- and socioeconomic-related variability in cortical thickness of threat neurocircuitry

Harnett, N.G., Fani, N., Rowland, G. Kumar P, Rutherford S, & Nickerson LD. Population-level normative models reveal race- and socioeconomic-related variability in cortical thickness of threat neurocircuitry. Commun Biol 7, 745 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06436-7

The neurophysiological consequences of racism-related stressors in Black Americans

Webb EK, Carter SE, Ressler KJ, Fani N*, Harnett NG*. (2024). Neurosci Biobehav Rev.  DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105638

Contributions of trauma and economic insecurity to psychological distress in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Abdul-Ghani, S., Lathan, E., Miao, A., Gibbons, R., Eghbalzad, L., Powers, A., Fani, N. (accepted, Mental Health Science)

Racial discrimination associates with lower cingulate cortex thickness in trauma-exposed Black women

Fani, N. Eghbalzad, L., Harnett, N.G., Carter, S.E., Price, M., Stevens, J.S., Ressler, K.J., van Rooij, S.J.H., Bradley, B. (in press, Neuropsychopharmacology).

Indirect effects of racial discrimination on health outcomes through prefrontal cortical white matter integrity

Okeke, O., Elbasheir, A., Carter, S.E., Powers, A., Mekawi, Y., Gillespie, C.F., Schwartz, A., Bradley, B., Fani, N. (in press, Biological Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging).

Racial and ethnic socioenvironmental inequity and neuroimaging in psychiatry: a brief review of the past and recommendations for the future

Harnett, N. G., Merrill, L. C., & Fani, N. (2024). Racial and ethnic socioenvironmental inequity and neuroimaging in psychiatry: a brief review of the past and recommendations for the future. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 10.1038/s41386-024-01901-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01901-7

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

Fani, N., Carter, S.E., Harnett, N.G., Ressler, K.J., Bradley, B. (2021). JAMA Psychiatry, doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.1480.

Racial discrimination and posttraumatic stress: examining emotion dysregulation as a mediator in an African American community sample

Mekawi, Y., Watson-Singleton, N.N., Kuzyk, E., Dixon, H.D., Carter, S., Bradley, B., Fani, N., Michopoulos, V., Powers, A. (2020). European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1824398. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2020.1824398

C-reactive protein moderates associations between racial discrimination and ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation during attention to threat in Black American women

Elbasheir, A., Felger, J.C., Michopoulos, V., Ely, T.D., Wommack, E.C., Carter, S.E., Harnett, N.G., & Fani, N. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01737-7

The role of racial discrimination in dissociation and interoceptive dysfunction

Fani, N., Khalsa, S. (accepted, Neuropsychopharmacology).

Anti-racist practice in psychiatry: Principles and recommendations

Fani, N. White, D., Marshall-Lee, E., Hampton-Anderson, J. (in press, FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry).

Trauma exposure and stress-related disorders in a large, urban, predominantly African-American, female sample

Gluck, R.L., Hartzell, G.E., Dixon, H.D., Michopoulos, V., Powers, A., Stevens, J.S., Fani, N., Carter, S., Schwartz, A.C., Jovanovic, T., Ressler, K.J., Bradley, B., Gillespie, C.F. (2021). Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 24(6):893-901. doi: 10.1007/s00737-021-01141-4

Adverse childhood experiences in African Americans: Framework, Practice and Policy

Hampton-Anderson, J.N., Carter, S., Fani, N., Gillespie, C.F., Henry, T.L., Holmes, E., Lamis, D.A., LoParo, D., Maples-Keller, J.L., Powers, A., Sonu, S. (2021). American Psychologist, 76(2),314-325.

Structural inequities contribute to racial/ethnic differences in neurophysiological tone, but not threat reactivity, after trauma exposure

Harnett, N.G., Fani, N., Carter, S., Sanchez, L.D., Rowland, G.E., Davie, W.M., Guzman, C., Lebois, L.A.M, Ely, T.D., van Rooij, S.J.H., Seligowski, A.V., Winters, S., Grasser, L.R., Musey Jr., P.I., Seamon, M.J., House, S.L., Beaudoin, F.L., An, X., Zeng, D., Neylan, T.C., Clifford, G.D., Linnstaedt, S.D., Germine, L.T., Bollen, K.A., Rauch, S.L., Haran, J.P., Storrow, A.B., Lewandowski, C., Hendry, P.L., Sheikh, S., Jones, C.W., Punches, B.E., Swor, R.A., Hudak, L.A., Pascual J.L., Harris, E., Chang A.M., Pearson, C., Peak, D.A., Merchant, R.C., Domeier R.M., Rathlev, N.K., Bruce, S.E., Miller, M.W., Pietrzak R.H., Joorman, J., Barch D.M., Pizzagalli, D.A., Harte, S.E., Elliott J.M., Kessler, R.C., Koenen, K.C., McLean, S.A., Jovanovic, T., Stevens, J.S., & Ressler K.J. (Accepted, Molecular Psychiatry)

Associations of maternal emotion regulation with child white matter connectivity in Black American mother-child dyads

Wang, C., La Barrie, D.L., Powers, A., Stenson, A.F., van Rooij, S.J.H., Stevens, J.S., Jovanovic, T., Bradley, B., McGee, R.E., Fani, N. (in press, Developmental Psychobiology).

Racial discrimination and white matter microstructure in a trauma-exposed Black population

Fani, N., Harnett, N.G., Bradley, B., Mekawi, Y., Powers, A., Stevens, J.S., Resser, K.J., Carter, S.E. Biological Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.08.011.

Interpersonal trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder among African American women: Does racial discrimination matter?

Mekawi, Y., Carter, S., Brown, B., Martinez de Andino, A., Fani, N., Michopoulos, V., & Powers, A. (2021). Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 22(2),154-169. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2020.1869098. (Selected for the Richard P. Kluft Award for the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 2021 Best Article)