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Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies look at women’s health. Here’s how to change that

A new initiative challenges the severe neglect of women’s brain health from puberty through to pregnancy and menopause.
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  1. Emily G. Jacobs

    1. Emily G. Jacobs is associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative.

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Neuroscientists now have unprecedented access to the living brain, thanks to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). More than 50,000 human-brain-imaging articles have been published since MRI came on the scene in the 1990s. But of those, less than 0.5% consider health factors specific to women.

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Nature 623, 667 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03614-1

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