Years before any symptoms of Alzheimer’s appear, beta-amyloid and tau proteins misfold, tangle, and aggregate inside the brain. While many people may develop beta-amyloid…
Women were historically excluded from medical research. The move was originally intended to keep them safe — but in a way, it did the…
By 2050, around 135 million people worldwide will be living with dementia. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Women are more…
Before 1993, researchers seldom included women in clinical trials. And yet, women have dramatically different risk of health conditions than men do. For example,…
By a woman’s late 40s, there is a good chance she’ll have started to experience the early phases of menopause. Menopause isn’t just the…
Two thirds of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women. Research shows that the Alzheimer’s biomarker tau protein accumulates differently and more quickly in women’s…
The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s, is a progressive, life limiting, neurodegenerative condition, which damages and destroys parts of the nervous system, especially…
The signs of menopause can be subtle, and easy to attribute to other causes. That hazy, discombobulated feeling — the forgetfulness, the trouble staying…
As I prepared to board the plane to Amsterdam for the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, an email from the news site Axios caught my…
Of the 30 million living with Alzheimer’s worldwide, two thirds are women. While it was previously thought that it was because women lived longer,…
Over 30 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease worldwide, making it the most common form of dementia. Two thirds of those diagnoses are women….
During menopause, the levels of the sex hormone estrogen drop leading to a group of symptoms — confusion, forgetfulness, difficulty focusing on a task…
Especially as the recent launch of ChatGPT — an alarmingly smart, artificial intelligence-powered text generator that can write a school term paper about as…
Although it has long been known that women are more susceptible to Alzheimer’s than men – two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women –…
When Michele Hall began experiencing alarming memory problems, her doctors initially suggested that she was going through menopause or perhaps experiencing unusual levels of…