Feels like the right time to dive in to #AcademicTwitter !

I was giving a presentation when this father's words left me dumbstruck. I knew he was right. I had watched my daughter nearly die of #anorexia. I too knew what it was like to feel helpless in the face of a house on fire. To weaken the flame, we need better support for families.

So excited our paper is out showing the association of neural correlates of hypervigilance and racial discrimination among Black Americans. S/o to Kate Webb, PhD for her amazing work on this!! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

New work by MTOP scholars Kate Webb, PhD Claire Maria Bird, PhD and more: Racial Discrimination and Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Salience Network Nodes ja.ma/3r7Qrmg via JAMA Network Open part of JAMA Network

New paper!! S/O to Claire Maria Bird, PhD and Milwaukee Trauma Outcomes Project Racial trauma and race-based traumatic stressors, including racial discrimination, are drivers of mental health disparities. But few studies have looked at associations between racism and the brain.

"we must abandon the antiquated notion that mental and physical health are addressed by discrete systems. they are inextricably linked.. ..yet the separation of primary care and mental health care has created two unequal standards." #thisispedpsych

Check out our website for this great white paper done by Isela Pina. The full paper is also sited on the page. milwaukeetrauma.com/white-papers/a…

So happy to announce that our (Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez and Robyn Douglas, M.A, M.S (she/her) ) perspective "Radically reframing studies on neurobiology and socioeconomic circumstances: A call for social justice-oriented neuroscience" is now out! *link below* 1/7