Publications by authors named "N Fani"
Racial Discrimination-related Interoceptive Network Disruptions: A Pathway to Disconnection.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
December 2024
Background: Racial discrimination (RD) disrupts regulatory systems in minoritized individuals, particularly those that govern attention, including attention to visceral signals (interoception). RD frequency is linked to physiological "shut down" responses, characterized clinically by dissociation. We examined associations between RD frequency and functional connectivity of attention and interoceptive networks in sample of trauma-exposed Black women, investigating how connectivity alterations associate with dissociation severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTorture as a Trauma of Disconnection: Neuroplastic Alterations in Survivors of Torture.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
December 2024
ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
November 2024
Meditation is a family of ancient and contemporary contemplative mind-body practices that can modulate psychological processes, awareness, and mental states. Over the last 40 years, clinical science has manualised meditation practices and designed various meditation interventions (MIs), that have shown therapeutic efficacy for disorders including depression, pain, addiction, and anxiety. Over the past decade, neuroimaging has examined the neuroscientific basis of meditation practices, effects, states, and outcomes for clinical and non-clinical populations.
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- - This study investigates the relationship between dissociation, a common trauma response, and the microstructure of white matter (WM) in the brain, particularly looking at how brain connectivity may be affected in trauma-exposed women.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 135 women to examine how different facets of dissociation related to fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of WM integrity, finding significant negative correlations between FA and overall dissociation across several important brain tracts.
- - The results suggest that greater severity of dissociation is associated with reduced WM integrity in areas linked to sensory processing, emotional regulation, and memory, highlighting potential targets for therapy and neuromodulation interventions.