Sex and Gender Influences on Women’s Midlife Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr. Caldwell is a neuropsychologist and Director of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement Prevention Center at Cleveland Clinic. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a minor in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She completed predoctoral internship at Harvard and postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology and neuroimaging at Brown. Dr. Caldwell studies sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention. She is principle investigator on R01 grants from the National Institute on Aging and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, as well as for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences-funded Center for Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience.
Session-specific Learning Objectives:
As a result of participation in this educational series, members of the healthcare team will be able to:
- Describe sex- and gender-influenced risks for Alzheimer’s disease
- Compare currently accepted modifiable dementia risks with additional risks relevant to women
- Recall commonly presenting risks in midlife women for consideration in clinical contexts
