ReviewNature neuroscience2022
Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods.
Review in Nature neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Parallel electrophysiological abnormalities due to COVID-19 infection and to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
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- Implementation of mobile EEG for resting-state and visual evoked potentials in young children in rural Ethiopia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Bioethical and critical consciousness in clinical translational neuroscience.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Review
- Conceptualizing an antiracist framework for neuroscience research in art therapy: a qualitative pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Despite their premise of objectivity, neuroscience tools for physiological data collection, such as electroencephalography and functional near-infrared spectroscopy, introduce racial bias into studies by excluding individuals on the basis of phenotypic differences in hair type and skin pigmentation. Furthermore, at least one methodology-electrodermal activity recording (skin conductance responses)-may be influenced not only by potential phenotypic differences but also by negative psychological effects stemming from the lived experience of racism. Here we situate these issues within structural injustice, urge researchers to challenge racism in their scientific work and propose procedures and changes that may lead to more equitable science.
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