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SUBMITTER: Losin EAR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds EAR Woo Choong-Wan CW Medina Natalia A NA Andrews-Hanna Jessica R JR Eisenbarth Hedwig H Wager Tor D TD
Nature human behaviour 20200203 5
Understanding ethnic differences in pain is important for addressing disparities in pain care. A common belief is that African Americans are hyposensitive to pain compared to Whites, but African Americans show increased pain sensitivity in clinical and laboratory settings. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying these differences are unknown. We studied an ethnicity- and gender-balanced sample of African Americans, Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites using functional magnetic resonance imaging d ...[more]