[The Hill - Changing America] Dr. Lisa Mosconi has been thinking about thinking for quite some time — in fact, since she was just a child. "My parents are both nuclear physicists," she recounts, which encouraged her to catch the science bug from an early age.
A native Italian, she studied neuroscience and nuclear medicine at the University of Florence and NYU before joining Weill Cornell School of Medicine in 2016. Since 2018, she has been director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and associate director of the first Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic in the United States.
Mosconi’s latest book, The XX Brain, sets out to detail the groundbreaking findings of her research into the comparatively understudied world of women's brains, including their cognitive distinctions from men’s brains, beginning at conception and continuing throughout the aging process.
Much of her ambitious research into women’s brains and nutrition is illuminated by a critical familial link: "I have a family history of Alzheimer's disease that affects the women in my family," she says. "And that's how I learned that it is not just my family, but that Alzheimer's disease really affects more women than men."
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