By Annemarie Schumacher Dimech The World Health Organization reports that family-based caregiving continues to be the norm across the globe. The care and support provided by informal caregivers is invaluable for both the person receiving care as well as for state and society. The economic value of informal care has long been recognized as a [...]
By Maria Teresa Ferretti and Ewelina Biskup It is estimated that breast cancer affects 2.1 million women worldwide each year. One in 8 women today will develop breast cancer at some time during their lives. In light of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to take stock of how far we have come […]
By Maria Teresa Ferretti (co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Women’s Brain Project) and Antonella Santuccione-Chadha (co-founder and CEO of the Women’s Brain Project) for the Women’s Brain Project Earlier this week on October 22, Biogen and EISAI announced new, updated results of their phase 3 clinical trials of the drug [...]
By Simona Mellino When we find out about cases of suicide in journals or on TV, we tend to think that it is a topic that does not relate to us directly. We want to believe that it will never happen to us or our relatives and that it is an extreme event caused mostly […]
By Kathrin Müsch Education is a path into a better future. It is also a path to better health including brain and mental health. Besides being rewarding by itself, better education brings a lot of benefits, not only to the individual but also to society in general. Education and a better skill set usually result […]
By Anastasia Dimitropoulou For the International Day of Older Persons, we wanted to revisit the importance of nutrition in the context of healthy aging. A study published in JAMA in July 2019 investigated whether a healthy lifestyle is associated with lower risk of dementia regardless of genetic risk. It included adults of European ancestry [...]
For World Alzheimer’s Day 2019, the global theme is stigma. To us, a first step is to talk about Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), as scary as it might be. However, we do not feel that today is a day for us to us our words. Rather, it is a day to give voice to the Alzheimer’s […]
On the 11th of September was the launch of the First Annual Meeting of the Coalition for Better Health at Lower Cost aimed to support the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 3 “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages”. The convention occurred at the UN in New York. You can […]
By Anastasia Dimitropoulou For Migraine Awareness Week, the Women’s Brain Project (WBP) team wanted to do a recap on the disease that is far more than a fancy word for headache. Some Migraine Facts 1 in 7 people suffer from migraines, which translates to over 1 billion people globally or nearly 15 percent of […]
Last June at the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health organized by the Women’s Brain Project (WBP) in Zurich, Switzerland, there was a very special guest: Sophia the Advanced Humanoid Robot from Hanson Robotics. Sophia the Advanced Humanoid Robot participated in the last panel of the Forum “Leveraging AI to [...]
The Women’s Brain Project (WBP) Team is always active and seeing how best to advocate for sex and gender differences in brain and mental health, as well as precision medicine. Here is a list of the events WBP will participate in over the next two months. Participation typically means sitting on a panel or giving […]
By Shahnaz Radjy Do you consider migraines to be just a bad headache? An excuse to cover up feeling hungover or for being too lazy to go out and meet friends? These are critical misconceptions about what is a real and very disabling neurological disease. In honor of World Brain Day 2019, freelance writer and […]
Antonella Chadha Santuccione, co-founder and CEO of the Women’s Brain Project, participated in this year’s Global Summit of Women which took place 4-6 June in Basel, Switzerland. In her presentation on Health and Wellbeing Under the Sex and Gender Lens: The Gateway to Precision Medicine, Antonella talks about the difference between [...]
This year’s International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health (the Forum) was highly inspiring, bringing together international leaders from multiple fields over two days at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Not only did the event make history, but it also did so in a room known for being where Churchill gave a landmark […]
By Simona Mellino At the Women’s Brain Project (WBP), we are always interested in reading about advances in healthcare and technology. We recently had the pleasure to read “Deep Medicine: How AI can make Healthcare human again” (Deep Medicine) by Eric Topol, and decided to share our impressions with you. Background Eric Topol is a […]
