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By Shahnaz Radjy, Executive Committee member, Women’s Brain Project   The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared October 10 as World Mental Health Day. But what does that mean? Why should we care? The easy answer is that we should all care because we all have a brain. It’s that simple. This year, with the […]

Most people who struggle with their mental health have, at some point, been blamed for their condition. They have been called names. They have been told it is only a phase or that they have just “to try harder”. Moreover, they are discriminated against because of their condition. This is the power that stigma holds. […]

By Shahnaz Radjy, Executive Committee member, Women’s Brain Project This year, nothing is business as usual. The same can be said for the flagship event hosted by the Women’s Brain Project (WBP) with the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health 2020 going virtual for the first time. With an innovative format, as of […]

Zurich, Switzerland (September 23, 2020) – The Women’s Brain Project (WBP) and the Global Alliance on Women’s Brain Health (GAWBH) launched the Swiss edition of the global Be Brain Powerful® campaign (“BBP”), which promotes the benefits of risk reduction and brain health to women in the fight to prevent, treat, and eventually cure Alzheimer’s [...]

Zurich, September 21, 2020 – The International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health 2020, the signature event of the Women’s Brain Project, was a big success on the path of sex and gender-oriented precision medicine and another step toward the realization of the first Institute of Sex and Gender Precision Medicine in Switzerland. [...]

ZURICH, Switzerland, Sept. 16, 2020 — Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha, co-founder and CEO of the Women’s Brain Project (WBP), and Head of Stakeholder Engagement at Biogen, has been awarded the World Sustainability Award 2020 for outstanding contributions to sex and gender-oriented precision medicine. The achievement recognizes her [...]

By Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha, Co-founder and CEO of the Women’s Brain Project As a co-awardee of the World Sustainability Award 2020, Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha delivered an acceptance speech on September 15. The notes the speech was based on are shared below. For the related press release, click here.   “When I was a [...]

The Women’s Brain Project (WBP) is counting down to its annual flagship event, the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health (the Forum). This year, it will take place virtually on Saturday and Sunday September 19-20. However, the format is different to your usual Zoom- or Hopin-powered event.   Expert insights at your [...]

By Simona Mellino, Life Sciences Senior Consultant at Accenture, Basel and Vice President, WBP   The sixth Panel of the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health, focuses on novel digital products and their impact on brain and mental health. Several digital products have now received FDA approval to support the diagnosis, [...]

By Bernadette Dwan, Engagement Manager Real World Solutions, IQVIA and Maria Teresa Ferretti, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, WBP   The goal of the fifth Panel of the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health, is to shed some light on how our personal lifestyle might affect our brain and mental health. There is […]

By Maria Teresa Ferretti, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, WBP The fourth Panel of the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health, sponsored by Eli Lilly, focuses on Migraine, a serious neurological diseases affecting overwhelmingly women, which is often misdiagnosed and undertreated. Taking Migraine as a specific example, [...]

Guest post by Alice Savoia Try to imagine a situation when you felt embarrassed by the way you look, disgusted by the image you saw in the mirror, eager to disappear. A moment when people around you didn’t understand how you were feeling, or, perhaps worse, they didn’t recognize your discomfort as real or meaningful. […]

By Maria Teresa Ferretti, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, WBP   This third panel of the International Forum on Women’s Brain and Mental Health will take Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) as a case study of a disease that affects men and women differently, and explore how such sex and gender differences could be leveraged to improve […]

We are roughly half-way through 2020, and reaching the countdown point for our International Women’s Brain and Mental Health Forum (WBP Forum) taking place virtually on 19-20 September this year. Find out more and register here! The whole WBP Team therefore wanted to take the occasion to say a big THANK YOU to all of […]

By Annemarie Schumacher Dimech, Co-Founder and President, WBP Maternal mental health is a topic of utmost importance, which is affected by a combination of some aspects of it being a taboo as well as a lack of research. Furthermore, in times of COVID-19, maternal mental health is facing additional challenges given the frequent social isolation [...]