Clinical epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: assessing sex and gender differences

MM Mielke, P Vemuri, WA Rocca - Clinical epidemiology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
With the aging of the population, the burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rapidly
expanding. More than 5 million people in the US alone are affected with AD and this number …

Cognition and mood in perimenopause: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MT Weber, PM Maki, MP McDermott - The Journal of steroid biochemistry …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective It is suggested that declines in estrogen around menopause are associated with
declines in cognitive functioning as well as increased risk of depressive symptoms and …

[HTML][HTML] Marked gender differences in progression of mild cognitive impairment over 8 years

KA Lin, KR Choudhury, BG Rathakrishnan… - Alzheimer's & dementia …, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction This study examined whether, among subjects with mild cognitive impairment
(MCI), women progressed at faster rates than men. Methods We examine longitudinal rates …

Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a …

SA Shumaker, C Legault, SR Rapp, L Thal, RB Wallace… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextPostmenopausal women have a greater risk than men of developing Alzheimer
disease, but studies of the effects of estrogen therapy on Alzheimer disease have been …

Estrogen actions in the central nervous system

BS McEwen, SE Alves - Endocrine reviews, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Estrogen Actions in the Central Nervous System* | Endocrine Reviews | Oxford Academic
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Increased risk of cognitive impairment or dementia in women who underwent oophorectomy before menopause

WA Rocca, JH Bower, DM Maraganore, JE Ahlskog… - Neurology, 2007 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: There is increasing laboratory evidence for a neuroprotective effect of estrogen;
however, the clinical and epidemiologic evidence remains limited and conflicting. We …

Gene-environment interactions in Alzheimer's disease: a potential path to precision medicine

A Eid, I Mhatre, JR Richardson - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in the United States and afflicts>
5.7 million Americans in 2018. Therapeutic options remain extremely limited to those that …

Oophorectomy, menopause, estrogen treatment, and cognitive aging: clinical evidence for a window of opportunity

WA Rocca, BR Grossardt, LT Shuster - Brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
The neuroprotective effects of estrogen have been demonstrated consistently in cellular and
animal studies but the evidence in women remains conflicted. We explored the window of …

Enrichment enhances spatial memory and increases synaptophysin levels in aged female mice

KM Frick, SM Fernandez - Neurobiology of aging, 2003 - Elsevier
The present study tested whether environmental enrichment can reduce age-related spatial
reference memory deficits and alter synaptic protein levels in aged female mice. Female …

Ultrastructural localization of estrogen receptor β immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampal formation

TA Milner, K Ayoola, CT Drake… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Several lines of evidence indicate that estrogen affects hippocampal synaptic plasticity
through rapid nongenomic mechanisms, possibly by binding to plasma membrane estrogen …