What are the effects of a history of prolonged discrimination? A brain that is in a resting state of don’t-let-your-guard-down vigilance, that is more reactive to perceived threat, and a PFC burdened by a torrent of reporting from the vmPFC about this constant state of dis-ease.[39] To summarize this section, when you try to do the harder thing that’s better, the PFC you’re working with is going to be displaying the consequences of whatever the previous years have handed you.
