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…
The important connection here is that the uterus growth-stimulating effect of estrogen also applies to the hippocampus, which is important in forming and retrieving memories. This means that a few days after your girl is done with her period is the absolute worst time to make a mistake. That memory will be locked in forever.
She’ll be able to recall it decades later. Thanks to the power of estrogen.
Hoping they can keep me on depo forever because my cycle was horrific.
Depo was great for me but it causes loss of bone density in the long term 😔 have you considered the implant?
For personal problems the implant can not be considered unfortunately. Guess I’ll have to detox for a year from depo.
Or just die from brittle bones.
I’ll have to think!
I’m not a biologist, nor can I read that paywalled article, but I’d be curious to learn how the male, prepubescent and post menopausal population is affected by the menstrual cycle.
I don’t know about post-menopausal people but anyone who spends a significant amount of time with a menstruating girl will have their brain shaped by it. It’s only a matter of time!
Menstruators have an impact, ya know?
Sorry I forgot it was paywalled. Here ya go: https://archive.is/Kab9U
Thank you for the link. Very interesting.
It appears that this research is in its infancy and significant further research is required.
