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Share on PinterestResearch shows that Black Americans are likelier to experience sleep deprivation than their white counterparts.Studies reveal that Black Americans are twice as likely to be sleep-deprived, compared with their white counterparts.Also, Black and Hispanic adults who live in inner-city areas, in particular, are more likely to sleep for shorter periods. In addition, Black and…

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.Ratner and his colleagues decided to investigate the effect of negative stereotyping on brain processing in Latinx UCSB students, specifically Mexican American students. In their paper, the authors note that Mexican American people represent 63% of the U.S. Latinx population.Ratner has done previous work on the fatiguing, depression-inducing effects of life…

Share on PinterestNew research is looking at which groups of people experience the most COVID-19-associated discrimination.The online survey of people living in the United States suggests that between March and April 2020, the percentage of people who experienced discrimination related to COVID-19 more than doubled, from 4% to 10% overall.The sharpest increases were for Asian…

Share on PinterestRacial inequalities plague the United States healthcare system. Image credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesAt MNT, we have zoomed in on some of the inequalities in healthcare that COVID-19 has exposed by interviewing experts and looking at the evidence available. We looked at the disproportionate effect that COVID-19 is having on black communities in the…