Hormone-Responsive Neural Circuits and Why They Matter for Women’s Health

Despite recent biomedical breakthroughs, progress in women’s health has been slow. A key barrier to understanding disorders that disproportionately affect women is our limited knowledge of how estrogen works beyond traditional reproductive tissue, particularly in the brain.

In this Presidential Lecture, Holly Ingraham will present new studies that show how sex-specific, hormone-responsive neural circuits control brain–body physiology. She will further provide a framework for closing knowledge and therapeutic gaps in women’s health.