INS NYC 2024 Program

Custom Content	Poster Session 06 Program Schedule 02/15/2024 04:00 pm - 05:15 pm Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60) Poster Session 06: Aging \| MCI \| Neurodegenerative Disease - PART 2 Final Abstract #1 Poster Symposium: Summary Current Directions in Women's Neuropsychology Research Category: Inclusion and Diversity/Multiculturalism Keyword 1: diversity Keyword 2: inclusion Summary Abstract: Women have long been underrepresented in research across scientific disciplines and most notably in neuroscience-related fields, including neuropsychology. This underrepresentation has limited our understanding of conditions that are exclusive to women as well as conditions that may influence men and women differently, whether due to hormonal, physiological, psychiatric, or psychosocial factors. It is encouraging that a shift is occurring in the field such that more inclusive research is being performed, including research highlighting a variety of women’s issues. In this seminar, we center current efforts by researchers to understand the unique neuropsychological presentations of women. We highlight four lines of women’s-focused research spanning trauma (both traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress (PTS)), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Parkinson’s Disease (PD), and the aging process. Dr. Adamson and colleagues will present on how exposure-related traumas, including TBI and PTS, affect women Veterans. They will emphasize both cognitive and psychiatric sequelae of trauma, including results related from neuroimaging studies. Dr. Kaplan and colleagues will supplement clinical research with unique perspectives from animal research as it relates to the impact of anxiety on AD progression in males and females. Their findings suggest that personalized medicine may best address potential sexually dimorphic AD network dysfunction. Dr. Thomas and colleagues address the paucity of research on the experiences of women with PD and will highlight conclusions that anxiety may have a marked influence on quality of life in women with this disease. Finally, Ms. Hagy and colleagues examine cognitive and psychological functioning in midlife females undergoing the menopause transition, underlining the relationship between depression and neurocognitive outcomes in this population. Through these presentations, our goal is to provide an overview of how gender inclusivity can be implemented into research to generate new perspectives on this population. We aim to reach an audience of both researchers and clinicians at all stages of career to both inform and inspire. Overall, we seek to encourage clinical neuropsychologists to incorporate their women patients’ unique experiences of sex and gender into case conceptualization and innovate research to continue expanding our knowledge base on this unique group.

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Poster Session 06 Program Schedule

02/15/2024
04:00 pm - 05:15 pm
Room: Shubert Complex (Posters 1-60)

Poster Session 06: Aging | MCI | Neurodegenerative Disease - PART 2

Final Abstract #1

Poster Symposium: Summary

Current Directions in Women's Neuropsychology Research

Category: Inclusion and Diversity/Multiculturalism

Keyword 1: diversity
Keyword 2: inclusion

Summary Abstract:

Women have long been underrepresented in research across scientific disciplines and most notably in neuroscience-related fields, including neuropsychology. This underrepresentation has limited our understanding of conditions that are exclusive to women as well as conditions that may influence men and women differently, whether due to hormonal, physiological, psychiatric, or psychosocial factors. It is encouraging that a shift is occurring in the field such that more inclusive research is being performed, including research highlighting a variety of women’s issues. In this seminar, we center current efforts by researchers to understand the unique neuropsychological presentations of women.

We highlight four lines of women’s-focused research spanning trauma (both traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress (PTS)), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Parkinson’s Disease (PD), and the aging process. Dr. Adamson and colleagues will present on how exposure-related traumas, including TBI and PTS, affect women Veterans. They will emphasize both cognitive and psychiatric sequelae of trauma, including results related from neuroimaging studies. Dr. Kaplan and colleagues will supplement clinical research with unique perspectives from animal research as it relates to the impact of anxiety on AD progression in males and females. Their findings suggest that personalized medicine may best address potential sexually dimorphic AD network dysfunction. Dr. Thomas and colleagues address the paucity of research on the experiences of women with PD and will highlight conclusions that anxiety may have a marked influence on quality of life in women with this disease. Finally, Ms. Hagy and colleagues examine cognitive and psychological functioning in midlife females undergoing the menopause transition, underlining the relationship between depression and neurocognitive outcomes in this population.

Through these presentations, our goal is to provide an overview of how gender inclusivity can be implemented into research to generate new perspectives on this population. We aim to reach an audience of both researchers and clinicians at all stages of career to both inform and inspire. Overall, we seek to encourage clinical neuropsychologists to incorporate their women patients’ unique experiences of sex and gender into case conceptualization and innovate research to continue expanding our knowledge base on this unique group.