Black graduate students at our university make up 0.04% of all grad students. Hispanic students make up 0.05% & Indigenous students are 0.002%. White students make up 52% & international students make up 26%. I'm struggling to understand these disparities. [UMass Factbook 2019]

Stress causes norepinephrine release from locus coeruleus projections to basolateral amygdala, increasing neuronal spiking & impairing fear extinction. Read about this work from Steve Maren 🐀🧠💭😨 &al in a Journal Club by Ellen Rodberg Journal of Behavioral Neuroscience. bit.ly/JNJC071520ER

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