NIH Grant Advances Research on Women ' s Brains, Menopause and Alzheimer ' s Risk

NIH Grant Advances Research on Women's Brains, Menopause and Alzheimer's Risk Roberta Brinton, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science, received a $15.1 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging to investigate perimenopausal brain aging. Today University of Arizona Health Sciencesalzheimers.png By suppressing estrogen activity in cells, researchers explore how decreased estrogen affects the brain during menopause. Actin, the cell ’s"skeleton" is shown in white and the nuclei are shown in blue. The mitochondria, which powers the cells, are dyed orange.HealthAdaptationCollege of Medicine - TucsonDeterminationExpertsExploration Media contact(s)Gloria Bloomer The Center for Innovation in Brain Sciencegbloomer@arizona.edu520-626-4164Worldwide, women are twice as likely over their lifetime to develop Alzheimer ' s disease.Seeking to unravel the biological complexities of this increased risk,  Roberta Diaz Brinton, director of the  University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Innovation in Brain Science and Regents Professor of Pharmacology, has been awarded a $15.1 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging, a division of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will allow Brinton to continue research to reveal the transformations in the brain that occur during female midlife aging that lead to greater risk of Alzheimer ' s disease.Brinton_1.jpg Roberta Diaz Brinton" Our research has shown that women are ...
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