Double the number of women suffer from dementia — so why are even the lab rats in brain studies male?

Depression, stroke and dementia are twice as common in women as in men. Among Alzheimer’s patients, 70 per cent are female. But according to Lynn Posluns, the driving force behind the first “Women’s Brain Health Day,” launched this week, most research on these disorders focus on only one gender — right down to the mice used as study subjects.

“Historically, most of the studies have been done on males because the hormones in women make more complicated,” says Posluns. “But just because we’re more complex doesn’t mean you shouldn’t study us.” To combat this invisibility, she says, “One of our requirements is that anyone using CCNA data report the sex of the animals they’re studying when they write a paper — as well as actually incorporating sex differences into their research.”“We’re studying women who have their ovaries removed before they would naturally go into menopause,” she says.

On Monday, WBHI launched the “Stand Ahead” challenge to raise more money for research on women and the brain. Participants are sponsored to post a video or photo of themselves in a head stand, with Brain Canada matching donations up to $250,000. The spectacle involved — the event’s promotional video includes Jeanne Beker, Pooja Handa and Cheryl Hickey, among others — is par for the course among health philanthropists these days .

Cause female mice haven't been emancipated yet so they have to stay home and look after the mouselings while the misogynist male mice go off to the lab.

There you have it! That explains orgs like Moms Demand and Poly Sesouvient.

Because the word female imo

(mouse)

Because historically speaking males easily fall victim to exploitation, violence, and manipulation. Regardless of species.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 surely there's an easy answer...

Toxic male privilege! We must induce dementia in more men to level the field!

A: Systemic genderinequality

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