Lisa Mosconi, neuroscientist: ‘Menopause is making women feel less valuable than before’

The work of neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi, whose name appears on The Times’ list of the world’s most influential scientists, addresses the relationship between menopause and the brain from a comprehensive perspective, a field she has been working on “since 2010, when no one was talking about it.” An Italian who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, she is a professor of neuroscience at Cornell University, where she directs two programs: the Women’s Brain Initiative and the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic. The Spanish-language launch of her third book, Menopause and the Brain, coincides with the presentation of her latest and most ambitious project, CARE, which aims to “reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s through endocrinology,” with 16 working groups and a budget of $50 million.

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