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Briana Brownlow

Briana Brownlow

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
briana.brownlow@duke.edu
2608 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

Differences in inflammation among black and white individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal Article Brain Behav Immun · July 2025 IMPORTANCE: Despite persisting health disparities between Black and White individuals, racial differences in inflammation have yet to be comprehensively examined. OBJECTIVE: To determine if significant differences in circulating levels of inflammatory mark ... Full text Link to item Cite

Criminalizing Psychopathology in Black Americans: Racial and Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Psychopathology and Arrests

Journal Article Clinical Psychological Science · November 1, 2024 Black Americans are arrested at disproportionate levels compared with White Americans. We sought to understand whether the association between psychopathology and arrest record is equally strong for Black Americans and White Americans, hypothesizing that t ... Full text Cite

Culturally compelled coping and depressive symptoms in Black Americans: Examining the role of psychophysiological regulatory capacity.

Journal Article Emotion · June 2024 Given the culture of racism in the United States, Black Americans are often required to use culturally compelled coping (CCC) styles, such as emotional and behavioral restraint and vigilance. Although CCC is adaptive in the face of pervasive racialized str ... Full text Link to item Cite

How Racism "Gets Under the Skin": An Examination of the Physical- and Mental-Health Costs of Culturally Compelled Coping.

Journal Article Perspect Psychol Sci · May 2023 Historically and contemporarily, Black Americans have been compelled to use effortful coping styles characterized by high behavioral and emotional restraint in the face of systematic racism. Lynch and colleagues have previously conceptualized a class of re ... Full text Link to item Cite

A brief scale of pathological worry that everyone already has

Journal Article Current Psychology · February 1, 2023 Worry is a central process in a wide range of psychopathological and somatic conditions. Three studies (N = 856) were used to test whether a subscale composed of five items of the most commonly used trait anxiety questionnaire, Spielberger’s State Trait An ... Full text Cite

Ethnic Differences in Resting Total Peripheral Resistance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal Article Psychosom Med · 2020 OBJECTIVE: Decades of research suggest that there may be important ethnic differences in the hemodynamic mechanisms that co-determine arterial blood pressure, the primary diagnostic index of hypertension. In general, studies have observed that, compared wi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sex Differences in the Impact of Racial Discrimination on Mental Health Among Black Americans.

Journal Article Curr Psychiatry Rep · November 4, 2019 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Greater racial discrimination is associated with poorer mental health among Black Americans; yet, there remains an incomplete understanding of sex differences in exposure to racial discrimination, and further, of how sex differences in c ... Full text Link to item Cite