Whitney Wharton

TL;DR: The KEEPS-Cog findings suggest that for recently postmenopausal women, MHT did not alter cognition as hypothesized, and women treated with o-CEE showed improvements in depression and anxiety symptoms over the 48 mo period, compared to women on placebo.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of population-based studies for the rate ratio of AD incidence for AAs versus CCs found AAs have an increased risk of incident and prevalent AD compared to CCs for reasons which are unknown, but are hypothesized to reflect biological, psychological, and socioeconomic factors.

TL;DR: The nature of postmenopausal exogenous hormone formulations in relation to premenopausal endogenous levels, as well as the ratio of estrone to estradiol warrant consideration.

TL;DR: Results are presented from two experiments using a basic Posner cueing paradigm in which females show larger validity effects in endogenously cued tasks, but not with a peripheral cue or exogenous cue, which found that while females show costs from an invalid cue relative to a no-cue control condition, males showed a benefit to invalid cues compared to no- Cue control conditions.

TL;DR: To examine the risk associated with the use of proton pump inhibitors of conversion to mild cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia, and specifically Alzheimer's disease (AD).