The leading expert on women’s brains says they are more likely to get Alzheimer’s

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For The Hill’s Changing America series, I spoke with neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Mosconi, director of the Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medicine, about her pioneering research into why women face a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Drawing on her book The XX Brain, Mosconi explains how decades of “bikini medicine” — the historic exclusion of women from clinical trials — left critical gaps in understanding female brain health. Her findings reveal how hormonal and metabolic changes, particularly during menopause, shape women’s cognitive aging and point toward prevention through nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle.

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