Dr. Lise Eliot: How Gender Impacts the Brain and Alzheimer’s Risk

Two thirds of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women. In addition, research shows that Alzheimer’s biomarker tau protein accumulates differently and more quickly in women’s brains. Researchers like Rosalind Franklin University’s Lise Eliot are investigating how differences in brain structure for men and women are impacting Alzheimer’s risk. Eliot joins Being Patient Live Talks to discuss these gender differences in the brain and the current research in this space.
Eliot is a professor of neuroscience in the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University. Her research centers on brain and gender development, focusing particularly on the role of neuroplasticity in translating early life experience into neural circuitry. She is the author of two books, What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Bantam), and Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
Watch this live talk to learn more about gender differences in brain structure and what this means for Alzheimer’s research
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Table of Contents
0:52 Gendered Differences in Brain Structure
3:35 Difference Between White and Gray Matter
5:02 Nature Vs. Nurture in Brain Health
6:34 Are Women's Brains Wired Differently?
9:59 Women's Aging and Alzheimer's Risk
12:30 Does Menopause Impact Alzheimer's Risk?
17:39 Should We Be Studying Gender Differences in the Brain?
18:46 Dr. Lise Eliot's Current Research

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I just Learned this Last night about Alzheimer's affects More Women than Men.

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I thought more men were affected by dementia. Is that only certain types of dementia?