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- June 17, 2025
- vol. 122
- no. 24
- Structural racism has created longstanding conditions for certain racially oppressed groups to die prematurely. While premature death is studied as an end point, considerably less work studies it as a “beginning point” for surviving bereaved ...Though racial disparities in shortened life expectancy have been well established, racial disparities in the burden of bereavement after such premature deaths are severely understudied. This is, in part, due to a lack of measurement tools for ...
- Through the industrial era, pollutants have been unevenly distributed in the environment, disproportionately impacting disenfranchised communities. Redressing the unequal distribution of environmental pollution is thus a question of environmental justice ...
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- Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving ...Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In ...
- Age-related cognitive decline is associated with metabolic, vascular, and inflammatory changes, making it challenging to distinguish primary causes from secondary (downstream) effects. This study demonstrates that brain aging follows a ...Understanding the key drivers of brain aging is essential for effective prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we integrate human brain and physiological data to investigate underlying mechanisms. Functional MRI analyses across four ...
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