Women and Dementia: Understanding sex/gender differences in the brain

Date: May 9, 2018

Hosted by: brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).

Presented by: Gillian Einstein, PhD; Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in Women's Brain Health and Aging; Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Guest Professor of Neuroscience and Gender Medicine, Linköping University, Sweden

Summary:

This webinar discusses understandings of sex and gender, sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease, how the higher number of women with AD may be due to both, and a discussion of the role of estrogens in the health of brain regions associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

This integrated KTE webinar event is brought to you by brainXchange in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA).