Studies show that the volume or thickness of certain brain regions expand during monthly periods—but they don’t reveal whether that’s connected to emotional fluctuations.
While women make up 70 percent of cases of Alzheimer’s disease and 65 percent of cases of depression, only about half of one percent of brain-imaging research is related to women. This disparity continues even in drug approvals, such as lecanemabirmb, which U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease, but it may not slow the disease in women.
Big oof!!!
“It’s high time to make the brain a major focus of women’s health,” says Sacher.
Or even better make women’s health the focus of medical research as it has been ignored for decades. Just like research has been on mostly white people.
Yep. Case in point, the most underfunded disease per disease burden at the NIH, affects 75% women (ME/CFS).
ME/CFS costs the economy billions every year and disables hundreds of thousands of Americans so bad they lose their jobs, yet male pattern baldness gets more NIH funding…
Big oof!!!
Or even better make women’s health the focus of medical research as it has been ignored for decades. Just like research has been on mostly white people.
Yep. Case in point, the most underfunded disease per disease burden at the NIH, affects 75% women (ME/CFS).
ME/CFS costs the economy billions every year and disables hundreds of thousands of Americans so bad they lose their jobs, yet male pattern baldness gets more NIH funding…