The Jean & Bill Booziotis Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Rachel Buckley, PhD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Alzheimers disease dementia is not just a brain thief; it's a gendered one. The most common of all the dementias, Alzheimers is characterized by early memory loss, particularly recent memories. Of all patients living with the dementia, two thirds are women, but we still treat it like a one-size-fits-all villain. Spoiler alert: Its not. Women have an outsized risk of being diagnosed with the disease, and its not just because women simply live longer. Its in the nitty gritty of brain biology. Recently approved anti-amyloid therapeutics that purport to delay the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimers disease show considerably less treatment effect in women relative to men. As such, it is of
critical importance to understand the extent to which sex biology, including menopause and the X chromosome, might play a role in increasing risk or resilience to Alzheimers disease.
Background: Dr. Rachel Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is an expert on sex differences in aging & Alzheimers Disease and is Chair of Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimers Disease Professional Interest Area, Alzheimers Association (ISTAART). Her research interests focus on harmonizing multiple cohorts to understand risk and resilience in preclinical Alzheimers disease, as well as sex differences in preclinical Alzheimers Disease.
About the event: This event is part of the Center for Vital Longevity's Jean & Bill Booziotis Distinguished Lecture Series, made possible by the late Bill Booziotis, former president of Booziotis and Company Architects and Center for Vital Longevity Advisory Council Member. Bill Booziotis and his wife, Jean, established the series to bring the Centers work, focused on understanding the science of the aging mind, to the public.
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